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Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 11: The Special Anti Corruption Court , Jammu has directed the Crime Branch to further investigate ETT scam. It has also directed the investigation agency to probe the roles of former ministers, secretaries and chairpersons of Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education in the scam.
Special Judge Anticorruption Court Jammu, Tahir Khurshid Raina , while directing further investigation in the case , passed strictures against the IO of the case for carrying out shoddy investigation. “Even the directions of the High Court passed in the PIL relating to investigation of this case , have been violated with impunity,” the court observed.
While directing further investigation, Court observed that investigate roles of Successive Ministers of Education after 2000, including Secretaries education & Chairmans BOSE, J&K and further Investigation to be done by an IPS officer not below the rank of SSP and Status report to be filed before the court fortnightly and further investigation to be completed within two months.
This scam became subject matter of investigation on the communication of the then Chairman JKBOSE in 2013, which resulted into registration of two FIRs bearing NO’s - 36/2013 at PS Crime branch Jammu and FIR No - 27/ 2013 at PS Crime Branch , Srinagar , u/ss 420, 468 , 471 , 120-B RPC r/w 5(2) PC Act and investigation was ensued. It’s important to mention that before the communication of the Chairman BOSE , the matter has already landed in the High Court at Srinagar through a PIL- 201/2011 filed by Parents Coordination Committee, wherein directions were passed to the government , JKBOSE and the investigating agency about the subject matter to ensure fair investigation in the case of high public importance . The PIL was finally disposed off in 2019 when it was conveyed to the High Court that the charge sheets got filed by the Crime Branch in the Anticorruption courts at Srinagar and Jammu and a new government order is issued relating to ETT institutes .
The main chargeshheet was filed in Special Anticorruption court , Jammu in 2015 against Bashir Ahmed Dar , the then Director Academics , JKBOSE in the year 2002- 04 and five other accused who were the beneficiaries called promoters/owners of the ETT institutes. This chargeshheet mostly related to the alleged scam based on admission - session 2003 to 2005 .
Simultaneously Crime Branch Jammu filed few more supplementary charge sheets based on academic sessions 2005- 07, 2007-09 etc. All the said chargesheets are pending disposal since 2015 in the said court. |
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