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J&K ACB presents charge-sheet against ex-ZEO Tangdhar, other officials
7/3/2025 10:39:36 PM
Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 3: ACB presented chargesheet against the then ZEO Tangdhar Kupwara & other officials for misappropriation of scholarship Funds meant for Pahari speaking & Gujjar Bakerwal students during 2010-2011.
On receipt of information about the allegations of fraud/ embezzlement in disbursement of scholarship Funds meant for Pahari speaking/ Gujjar-Bakerwal students in Education Zone, Tangdhar District Kupwara for year 2010-11, a verification was conducted by VOK (Now ACB Kashmir ) which revealed that during the year 2010-11, then ZEO Tangdhar namely Mohammad Ashraf Bhat; then dealing Clerk namely Mohammad Ashraf Paswal and other officials under a well-knit conspiracy, by abuse of their official positions, dishonestly and fraudulently inflated the figures of beneficiary students and thus obtained the excess funds from CEO Kupwara on account of Gujjar/Bakerwal and Pahari speaking student scholarships and misappropriated the excess funds so obtained.
Accordingly, Case FIR No 32/2018 under Section 5(1)(c), 5(1)(d) r/w 5(2) of Jammu and Kashmir Prevention of Corruption Act, Samvat 2006 and Section 468, 471, 120-B RPC was registered in Police Station Vigilance Organization Kashmir (Now ACB) and the investigations into the misappropriation/ embezzlement of scholarship funds during 2010-2011 was set into motion.
Investigation conducted has established that accused public Servants Mohammad Ashraf Bhat (then In-charge Zonal education Officer Tangdhar), Mohammad ashraf Paswal (then Junior Assistant in the office of Zonal Education Officer Tangdhar), Razia Bano (then Junior Assistant in the office of Zonal Education Officer Tangdhar) and Shafiqa Rafiq (then Zonal Gender Coordinator in the office of Zonal Education Officer Tangdhar) during the year 2010-11, have by way of abuse of their official positions in furtherance of criminal conspiracy hatched among themselves inserted fictitious names in the disbursement registers, to whom scholarship was fraudulently shown disbursed was actually misappropriated.
That by doing so the accused Public servants caused misappropriation of an amount of ?8,30,200 (Rupees Eight Lakh Thirty thousand Two hundred) meant for scholarship of Pahari Speaking and Gujjar-Bakerwal Students of Education Zone Tangdhar, conferring undue pecuniary gains upon themselves with corresponding loss to the state exchequer which constitute the offence of criminal misconduct as defined under section 5(1)(c), 5(1)(d) r/w section 5(2) J&K Prevention of Corruption Act. Samvat; 2006 and other offences of forgery ,using forged documents,onspiracy etc under section 468, 471, 120-B RPC, which were made out and established against accused public servants.
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