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| Anti-corruption watchdog in J&K plans to make public list of assets of "tainted" politicians, bureaucrats, police officers | | | early times report
JAMMU, June 27: An anti-corruption body in J&K has been keeping a track on some tainted politicians, bureaucrats and police officers who possess assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.
The anti-corruption watchdog plans to prepare and make public a list of the assets of some tainted politicians, bureaucrats and legislators, official sources said.
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, the sources added.
"Astonishingly, it is a rags-to-riches story for most of them, the initial findings have revealed," sources said.
Sources said a politician, who was a small time contractor before he plunged into active politics, had acquired huge assets.
Politics had become a full-time business for a "new" breed of politicians. While few of them had extracted huge contracts using their influence, others were satisfied with small works they were getting from the heads of government departments, the sources added.
Using their influence, some of them had taken off-licences and 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.
Those, who ran tea stalls, were now in crores, the sources added.
Sources said there were few upright politicians too but they had been cornered. No off-licence, no bus route permit, and no petrol pump licence 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.
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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