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Corrupt in dock
7/17/2020 11:33:38 PM

Jammu and Kashmir administration taking a tough stand against corruption is a message to everyone that rules of the game have changed and no one can protect anyone in the new set up.
According to the media reports recently a senior bureaucrat was made to deposit more than Rs 35 lakhs which he had allegedly amassed illegally and was also made to pay more than Rs 20 lakh as his pending tax.
It was possibly for the first time in Jammu and Kashmir that the senior official was held accountable for his alleged misdeeds.
The noose has been tightened, today one officer has been nailed tomorrow others also can be taken to task. In the past political regimes in the erstwhile J&K State failed to act against the big fishes. The accountability commissions which were set up by these dispensations failed to deliver as they couldn’t act against anyone due to one or another reason.
J&K’s reorganization has paved the way for Centre to take control of the crucial issues confronting Jammu and Kashmir and corruption has been one of the major problems which J&K has faced during all these years.
After J&K has started functioning as the Union Territory, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has got more teeth. It has become active and of late it has taken action against the people whom one could not have even imagined in the past. There are reports that the ACB is going through the old files and many big fishes like son of former J&K Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather could be next on the list.
The benami properties owned by the big guns are being verified. Former rulers were aware of all these facts but they lacked the political will to act against the elements who looted the State exchequer. The time has come to hold everyone, including the politicians who shielded the corrupt elements, accountable.
The ACB and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have been asking people to come forward with complaints. The proactive approach of the anti-graft agencies has emboldened the people. This has led to the change in the attitude of the officials working in the government departments.
This is visible on the ground and the government employees have started taking their jobs seriously. They have realized that J&K is no more a State and it’s a Union Territory where no nonsense will be tolerated.
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