ACB registers case against Senior Assistant posted in BDO Assar and Junior Engineer posted in PWD(R&B) Division Ramban

1.Anti-Corruption Bureau Doda has registered case against Shri Nazir Ahmed S/O Kher Din R/O village Assar, District Doda, Senior Assistant in BDO Office Assar and his son namely Arif Waquar, Junior Engineer, presently working in PWD (R&B) Division Ramban in a case for accumulating huge moveable/ immovable assets quite disproportionate to their known legal sources of income.

Accordingly, formal case under FIR No.07/2019 u/s 5(1) (e) read with section 5(2) J&K P.C. Act. Svt 2006 was registered against them in Police Station Anti-Corruption Bureau Doda and investigation taken-up.

2. The cognizance into the matter has taken on the basis of a Verification conducted to look into the allegations of raising assets disproportionate to their known sources of income by Shri Nazir Ahmed S/O Kher Din R/O village Assar, District Doda, Senior Assistant in BDO Office Assar and his son namely Arif Waquar, Junior Engineer, presently working in PWD (R&B) Division Ramban has revealed that the said officials by indulging into corrupt practices and by misusing/abusing their official positions have raised huge assets in the shape of moveable / immovable properties, quite disproportionate to their known source of income.

3. During the course of verification it surfaced that Shri Nazir Ahmed and his son Arif Waquar are in possession of one triple storey house/one single storey house constructed on a piece of land measuring one kanal one marla, one double storey house constructed on another piece of land measuring 12 Marlas, land measuring 03 Kanal 12 Marlas on which shops are constructed at Assar, land, measuring 22 Kanals at Kurmail (Assar) and one sick unit (factory) established in one kanal land on National Highway Batote-Doda at Assar. Verification further revealed that Arif Waquar had also purchased one Maruti Car bearing No.JK14C-5815. The expenditure incurred by both of them in acquiring these assets has been found much more than the legitimate income earned by them from all known sources of income. These assets found in possession of Shri Nazir Ahmed S/O Kher Din Hajam R/O Assar, District Doda, Sr. Assistant in BDO office Assar and his son namely Arif Waquar JE in PWD (R&B) Division Ramban and the expenditure incurred by them in acquiring the above mentioned assets are disproportionate to their known sources of income. After obtaining search warrant from the Hon’ble Court of Special Judge Anti-Corruption, Doda, ACB teams were constituted and deputed to conduct house searches of the accused public servants at village Assar, District Doda. During searches, some incriminating documents, Pass books & FDR’s related to the case were recovered / seized.

4. Investigation of case is going on.