
The transfer comes as among the paperwork within the case have been allegedly discovered lacking.
Jammu:
A workforce has been shaped by the Kathua Collector to hint some paperwork associated to the allotment of land to an academic belief in Jammu and Kashmir, which is below the CBI’s preliminary enquiry, officers have stated.
The transfer comes as among the paperwork, requested for examination by the central probe company, have been allegedly discovered lacking, the officers stated.
“A team has been formed by the Kathua Collector to locate the documents related to the allotment of land,” an official stated, requesting anonymity.
Earlier, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had sought particulars from a former deputy commissioner of Kathua in reference to its preliminary enquiry into allegations of land grabbing by the tutorial belief run by a former minister.
The CBI had final month registered a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) towards RB Educational Trust of Kathua and unidentified public servants to probe allegations of unlawful gratification and extraneous consideration by income and forest officers of Kathua for permitting sale and buy of forest land, the officers stated.
During the preliminary enquiry, the company tried to search out out whether or not materials existed to maneuver forward with a proper registration of a Regular Case or FIR to start out investigation.
The belief, run by former Jammu and Kashmir minister Lal Singh, has a college, B.Ed and nursing schools on the land. Its transactions have now come below the scanner of the central company for alleged irregularities in buy of the land, they stated.
According to the CBI’s PE, it’s alleged that false certificates claiming that such land comes below exempted class below the Jammu and Kashmir Agrarian Reforms Act have been utilized in its buy by the tutorial belief, the officers stated.
The preliminary enquiry by the CBI has alleged that the belief, a beneficiary of such alleged unlawful acts, continues to be in possession of giant tracts of land in gross violation of ceiling prescribed below the JK Agrarian Reforms Act, 1976, they stated.
During the preliminary enquiry no searches may be carried out or nobody may be summoned for recording statements with out consent. Lal Singh had final yr give up the BJP and floated the Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan (DSS).
He and the then industries minister Chander Prakash Ganga had resigned from the PDP-BJP dispensation in 2018 after questions have been raised over their participation in a Hindu Ekta Manch rally organised in help of these arrested in reference to the rape and homicide of an eight-year-old woman in Kathua that yr.