Srinagar, Dec 16, KDC: The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday afternoon raided the house of Manager Housing Board Bemina at his residence at Hyderpora and other places in Kashmir valley into the corruption allegation, reported news agency KDC
Probing agency ACB in a statement to news agency KDC said “Anti Corruption Bureau has registered case FIR 27/2020 against the officers/ officials of J&K Housing Board Srinagar on the outcome of a JSC conducted by this Bureau into the allegations of procurement of material on exorbitant rates and use of substandard material in projects of construction of the buildings undertaken and progressed ahead by J&K Housing Board Unit 2nd, Srinagar without tendering process during the period 2015- 2017.”
They said “During the probe it has been found that these works were to be executed in two fold mechanism; labour component and material component wherein the labour component was to be executed through piece meal workers and the material was to be produced through tendering from original manufactures. Apart from lot of procurements done without tendering in conspiracy with portrayed piece meal workers, made procurement of many items on exorbitant rates.”
“It has surfaced that at one project in Srinagar, the excavated earth to the tune of 11756 cubic metres has been shown transported to a dumping site but the dumping site has not been identified by providing any site plan etc. The dumping site is located at a far distance from the project site but same has been shown located at minimum distance. The auction or sale of excavated material could have generated revenue for government as such wrongful loss has been caused to the State Exchequer.” reads the statement.
ACB said “These commissions and omissions on part of officers/officials of J&K Housing Board, namely Aftab Rashid Pandit, the then Deputy General Manger J&K Housing Board Unit 2nd, Srinagar, Shiekh Sajjad Bashir, the then Assistant Manager J&K Housing Board Unit 2nd, Srinagar and others constitute offences under section 5(1) (C), 5(1) (d) r/w section 5(2) J&K PC Act Samvat 2006 and section 120-B RPC. Accordingly, a case FIR No. 27/2020 was registered in Police Station ACB Srinagar on 15.12.2020.”
Sources told news agency KDC that the search warrants were obtained from the competent court and searches were conducted at various places including a resident at Hyderpora.
Talking to news agency Kashmir Dot Com- (KDC) a senior ACB official said that yes we have raided the house of Manager Housing Board Bemina and we have seized several documents including that of bank related property and further investigation into the case is on (KDC)
