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| VO books ex-CTP | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 22
The State Vigilance Organisation has registered a case against Mir Naseem Ahmad former Chief Town Planner Jammu and Kashmir and others for misuse of official position and conferment of undue benefit upon himself and his other accomplices by mischievously changing land use relating to Sub- zone A-14 in Pahalgam Master Plan.
In the course of joint surprise check it was found that a committee comprising of Mir Naseem Ahmad then Chief Town Planner, Hamid Ahmad Wani then Town Planner and Nazir Ahmad then Assistant Town Planner was constituted in 2004 to prepare Master Plan (2004-2025) of Pahalgam. The members of the committee resorted to misrepresentation, manipulations and distortions whereby it was interalia proposed that sub-zone A-14 be de-notified to permit construction of hutments and other facilities in the Master Plan of Pahalgam Town (2005-2025).
This was aimed at achieving the mischievous design for personal gain of accused public servant Shri Mir Naseem Ahmad to induce a sharp increase in cost of land. It was found that sub-zone A-13 having sizable population already residing and being contiguous with already de-notified area was willfully ignored, for personal gain while de-notifying sub-zone A-14, which is inaccessible and situated on the other side of Sheeshnag Nallah of river Lidder.
Enquiries have revealed that the former Chief Town Planner, in the year 1999 had dishonestly and fraudulently acquired land measuring 29 Kanals 13 Marlas under survey No. 825, 827, 835 and 836 in Planning sub-zone A-14 at Pahalgam through gift deed shown to have been made by donors to his close, trusted and confident subordinate employees namely S/Shri Ishtiyaq Ahmad, Showkat Ahmad sons of Mohammad Maqbool Ganai R/O Kalaroos Kupwara and an associate Shri Abdul Rashid s/o Abdul Razak Wani R/O Hawal Srinagar. It was found that after fraudulently acquiring the land in the name of proxy owners, a plan was conceived by Shri Mir Naseem Ahmad to arbitrarily change the land use to induce sharp increase in the value of land in sub-zone A-14 for personal gain. Shri Hamid Ahmad Wani, then Town Planner and Nazir
Ahmad Magray, Assistant Town Planner were also found to have purchased land in sub-zone A-14 measuring 4 Kanal 4 Maralas and 2 Kanal 8 Marlas respectively for sale consideration of rupees eighty thousand and fifty thousand in sub-zone A-14 in their own names and that of close relatives.
The accused were found to have conspired in omitting the proposal of the de-notification of sub-zone A-14 from draft master plan which was made available to general public for filing objections. Thus the general public was deprived of the right to raise any objection and mislead by the accused officials, the government approved the Master Plan in 2006 in the form proposed by the accused which recommended about the change in the land use.
Case FIR No.27/2008 P/S VOK was registered and investigation taken up. In the course of investigation, various premises in Srinagar and Kupwara were raided by the SVO Officials during which, besides other incriminating evidence, documents relating to the acquisition of land at various places were recovered. These include documents about the purchase of hundreds of kanals of land at Barsoo Awantipora by Shri Mir Naseem Ahmad in his own name and in the names of his close relatives. A copy of the Master plan of Pahalgam describing the land use was also recovered from the house of the accused Hamid Ahmad Wani. Further investigation is in progress. |
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