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| Principal, ZEO, ors convicted for forgery, fake appointments | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 14- The Court of Special Judge Anti-Corruption Kashmir Gous-ul-Nisa Geelani today convicted Principal, ZEO and several others and sentenced them to Jail for making fake and forged appointments after seven years trial.
Those convicted included Abdul Majeed Wani, then Principal Higher Secondary School Ratnipora, Abdul Gani Hurrah, then Accounts Assistant Higher Secondary School Ratnipora, Pulwama, Farooq Ahmed Dar, then Junior Assistant Higher Secondary School Ratnipora, Ghulam Nabi Sheikh, then ZEPO Pulwama and Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Sofi, then Lab Bearer Higher Secondary School Ratnipora. The accused have been sentenced to rigorous imprisonment of 3 years under section 5(2) P.C Act and a fine of Rs.50,000 each and 2 years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs.50,000 each for offences U/S 120-B, 467, 471 RPC. However, all the sentences will run concurrently, the Court ordered.
The investigation established that the signatures of CEO Pulwama were forged and fake as the same was certified by FSL experts. After accord of sanction for prosecution, the challan of case was produced in the court of law on February 4, 2002 and after a trial of more than seven years during which the prosecution was able to establish the case beyond any shadow of doubt against the accused as a result of which the Court convicted them. All the convicted persons were arrested in the court premises and have been sent in the Central Jail Srinagar for serving the sentence.
It may be recalled that a case FIR No.48/99 was registered at P/S VOK on August 18, 1999 following the revelations during the course of investigation of case FIR No.108/1998 P/S VOK wherein it surfaced that accused Abdul Majeed Wani during his posting as Principal Boys Higher Secondary School Ratnipora Pulwama by abuse of his official position and in active connivance with his subordinate staff had allowed one Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Sofi son of Munawar Sofi of Pinglana, Pulwama to join in his school on fake appointment order No.38086 dated 08.04.1998 shown issued by DEO Pulwama and transfer order No.CEO/PL/7530 dated 01.04.1997 shown issued by Chief Education Officer Pulwama in order to confer the illegal benefits upon the appointee. Both these orders on verification were found fake. It was further revealed that the accused also allowed one Ashia Akhter daughter of Abdul Gani Rather to join in Boys Higher Secondary School Ratnipora on fake appointment order.
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