Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 3: After the Union Home Minister Amit Shah's green signal to the newly constituted Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Jammu in Kashmir, the anti-graft body has decided to widen its ambit to check rampant corruption and to crack the whip on big guns enjoying prime posts in various government institutions including the J&K Bank.
Reliable sources told Early Times that feeling upbeat over the recent directions and praises from the Union Home Minister, the ACB has decided to put on its radar the prime institutions of Jammu and Kashmir that include J&K Cements Ltd, J&K Minerals Ltd, SIDCO, and other institutions like J&K Handloom Corporation to check the rampant corruption, nepotism, favouritism and illegal appointments.
"Yes, we are going to cast our net in the coming days on various institutions where there are reports of corruption and mass bungling of government funds besides strong reports of fake appointments and favouritism," an ACB source told Early Times.
Sources said that in the next phase, the ACB is set to catch-hold of big fish involved in malpractices, mass bungling, illegal appointments and misuse of official appointments.
In the phase two, the sources said that the ACB is planning to crackdown on various boards, Khadi and Village Boards and Gujjar and Bakerwal Board and then commissions like the Information Commission, State women Development Corporation etc.
At present, the ACB officials revealed, they are busy with collaborating various evidences with regard to the case of J&K Bank. "Questioning of various bank officials have been completed and evidences are being put in order to find out the reality in the complaints filed before the ACB," an official in the ACB said. J&K government had sacked the former Bank chairman Pervez Ahmed Nengroo and appointed R K Chibber as an interim chairman of the Bank after raiding the Corporate office of the Bank twice a day.
The ACB officials had questioned the former chairman Pervez and also some official of the Human Resources division of the Bank. "The investigations into the case related to J&K Bank is in its last leg and will be completed soon," they said.
There were allegations that during Pervez's tenure at least 1200 illegal appointments had taken place, while as mass bungling and favouritism besides huge loans against small mortgages were also witnessed in the Bank. |
