Vigilance busts Pahalgam land scam but we all know that it is just a “tip of the iceburg”
Nearly 40 Kanals of state land transferred illegally
Srinagar: A land scam has surfaced in Pahagam with State Vigilance Organisation (SVO), after conducting verification, registering a case against revenue officials and beneficiaries for ‘illegal mutation of state land in Estate Pahalgam and its adjacent villages.’
SVO sources said that the organization had received complaints against illegal allotment of land in Pahalgam and its adjacent villages. “When it was prima-facie established that Shamilat land in estate Pahalgam and its adjacent villages had been illegally mutated in revenue records and allotted to beneficiaries in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy with concerned revenue officials, a case FIR No.16/2009 was registered in P/S VOK,” a statement issued by SVO said.
The verification conducted by the organization revealed that land measuring 3 kanals 17 marlas under khasra No.266-Min, basically a State land, has been illegally transferred in favour of one Abdul Gani Khan S/o Abdul Aziz Khan and Abdul Majid Khan S/o Abdul Gani Khan, of Anantang, sources said.
“Similarly state land measuring 22 kanals in village Nunwan has also been found illegally transferred in favour of one Mohammad Bashir S/o Alam-din and another patch of State land measuring 1 kanal under khasra No.292/167 situated in village Nunwan has been transferred in favour of one Bashir Ahmad Najar S/o Abdul Gani R/o Lazbal Anantnag,” the sources said, adding, “This land is recorded as Khalsa Sarkar in the relevant revenue records.”
Further verification revealed that State land measuring 10 kanal 11 marlas situated at village Laripora under khasra No.291-294 has been illegally mutated vide No.701-LB-06 in favour of one Ghulam Ahmad S/o Mehda R/o Sallar.
“Officers/officials of Revenue department Tehsil Pahalgam in league with beneficiaries under a well knit conspiracy, by abuse of their official position, have illegally transferred the State land in favour of beneficiaries, thereby causing huge loss to state exchequer,” SVO statement said.
The statement further said that the investigation of the case has been taken up on priority and more such instances of illegal transfer of state land are expected to be unearthed in the course of further investigation.
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