Illegal constructions post Sept-2014 floods;Three Ward Officers, 3 building Insps, others booked

STATE TIMES NEWS
SRINAGAR: Three Ward Officers and three Buildings Inspectors of Srinagar Muncipal Corporation (SMC) were among over a dozen of accused including beneficiaries booked for allowing, facilitating and constructing illegal residential and commercial buildings in Srinagar by taking undue advantage of post September-2014 flood situation.
The State Vigilance Organisation (SVO) has registered FIR against Ward Officers Shakeel Ahmad Sheikh, Mohammad Yousuf Qazi and Showkat Ahmad Zargar besides Building Inspectors, identified as Nazir Ahmad Azad, Aijaz Ahmad Thakur and Irfan Hussain Mir in addition to beneficiaries and other staff members of SMC.
The verification conducted by the SVO sleuths revealed that officers /officials of Ward No. 28 (Batamaloo), Srinagar Municipal Corporation, in conspiracy with the beneficiaries and by way of abuse of their official positions facilitated/allowed raising of illegal and unauthorized constructions/ structures in Firdous Abad, Moomin Abad, Maharajipora Tengpora Bypass and Court Road Areas of the said ward.
The beneficiaries include Ali Mohammad Bangroo, son of Ghulam Qadir, resident of Chinnar Colony Parraypora (M/s Rehbar Steels at Tengpora Bypass). The accused officers allowed him to construct a structure 42×112 of CGI- Sheets on RCC plinth.
Mohammad Ayoub Dar, Ghulam Nabi Dar, Bashir Ahmad Dar and Mohammad Amin Dar, all sons of late Abdul Ahad Dar, resident of Firduous Abad Srinagar constructed a single storey structure with four shops and stair. Ghulam Nabi Dar, son of Ghulam Rasool Dar, resident of Moominabad Tengpora (M/s New Dar Traders) constructed a single storey shopping complex behind his already constructed old shopping complex, Mehrajudin Sofi, son of Ghulam Mohammad Sofi, resident of Tengpora bypass (M/s Sofi Poultry) to construct a single storey structure having five rooms.
All these structures have been constructed in violation of the building laws and regulations as in vague and have thereby caused huge loss to the state exchequer as no fee has been paid by the beneficiaries and no process has been undertaken for obtaining the permissions from the competent authorities with respect to this illegal structures. The omission /commissions on the part of above public servants attracts provisions of offence under section 5(1) ( d) read with 5(2) J&K Prevention of Corruption Act Svt 2006 , Sections 120-B, and section 109 RPC and accordingly a case under FIR 5/2017 Police Station Vigilance Organisation Kashmir registered and the investigations have been set in motion.