STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Even as black-marketing of rations, meant for Below Poverty Line segments of the society, is unabated and action against the corrupt remains elusive, a Senior Assistant of the Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department (CAPD) has been booked for possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
The action comes at a time when public uproar against unscrupulous elements of the CAPD is increasing and the government continues to be criticised for shielding the corrupt by delaying judicial dispensation in terms of withholding the sanctions for prosecution. The intermittent and so-called raids being conducted by State Vigilance Organisation sleuths are nothing but futile exercise of harassing the officials in order to extort money. Each raid ends with paying and receiving of, what is called in common parlance, ‘hafta’. The SVO has never bothered to follow up the sanctions in established cases, as a result of which the cases remain consigned to cold storage.
In ever-growing unscrupulous activities in the CAPD, the State Vigilance Organisation remains hand-in-glove with tainted officials and officers, which leave little scope for cases being investigated on merit.
In addition, prosecution for sanction is yet another obstacle that sags the morale of honest investigators, as they know their effort will go waste with higher-ups shielding the corrupt.
According to reports, a Senior Assistant posted in the office of the Assistant Director, CA&PD Department (Trade and Stores) Jammu has been booked for possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. A team of vigilance sleuths during a raid at his Channi Rama residence on Wednesday, seized some incriminating documents. The SVO has booked Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din, the then Storekeeper Chassana, now Senior Assistant, son of Ghulam Mohd Malik, resident of Gulabgarh District Reasi at present Sector No.2 H.No.19 Pamposh Colony Channai Rama, Jammu, was booked on the allegations for having accumulated huge movable/immovable assets disproportionate to his known legal sources of income. FIR 35/2014 under Section 5(1) (e) read with section 5 (2) J&K P.C.Act Svt. 2006 Police Station has been registered. “We are scrutinizing the incriminating documents seized from the house of the accused, said a Vigilance official.