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| Few politicians, bureaucrats, police officers under anti-corruption watchdog scanner | | | Bharat Bhushan
Jammu, Dec 10: An anti-corruption watchdog plans to prepare and make public a list of the assets of some tainted politicians, bureaucrats and legislators. If it happens, it would be a development Jammu and Kashmir cannot be proud of.
J&K has already been labelled as the second most corrupt state in the country after Bihar.
Having zeroed in on some tainted politicians, and civil and police officers (serving and retired), the anti-corruption body was busy in preparing a detailed list of their moveable and immovable assets.
Astonishingly, it is a rags-to-riches story for most of them, the initial findings have revealed.
Sources privy to the probe said a politician, who was a small time contractor before he plunged into active politics seven to eight years back, had acquired huge assets.
Politics had become a full-time business for a "select" group of politicians. While few of them had extracted huge contracts in connivance with engineers, others were satisfied with small works they were getting from chief engineers and heads of other government departments.
Using their influence, some of them had taken government permits for plying buses on lucrative routes, and LPG agencies.
Sources said many of them, who were under the scanner, lived in small houses before they joined politics, or government services a decade or so back. However, they now owned palatial houses and luxury cars, and their children were studying in country's top educational institutions.
If the anti-corruption body was not restrained by the government from moving ahead with its probe, several corrupt faces were likely to be exposed, sources said.
Sources said there were few upright politicians too but they had been cornered now. No bus route permit was found issued in their names, or in the names of their nears and dears, the sources added.
The raid by an anti-corruption body at the residence of a bureaucrat, who was faced with serious allegations of corruption against him, was cancelled at the last moment. This bureaucrat was linked with the preparation of ration cards for Kashmiri migrants at the time of mass migration from Kashmir.
Hundreds of Kashmiri migrant ration cards, issued during his tenure, were found fake and cancelled later. Few officers from revenue, horticulture and agriculture departments, who had joined relief department on deputation, were also alleged to be behind the preparation of these fake cards.
While some migrants had allegedly taken cards in the names of their children showing them as separate family units, some Jammu criminals too withdrew money, given to migrants as relief every month, against fake cards.
Sources said even as several hundred crores of relief money was swindled, no serious effort was made by the authorities concerned to identify the "big fishes" who had allegedly gobbled up the state money.
Their files were also likely to be put to scrutiny once again, the sources added. |
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