SRINAGAR: Vigilance Organisation has indicted several top serving and retired officials of the Srinagar Municipality for hatching a criminal conspiracy to grant permission for construction of malls in the civil lines area.
Vigilance Organisation Kashmir (VOK) has registered FIRs in this regard.
Verification conducted by the Vigilance Organization Kashmir revealed that in the year 2009 officers of Building Operation Controlling Authority (BOCA) of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) under the chairmanship of the then Commissioner Srinagar Municipality hatched a criminal conspiracy, by abuse of their official positions and granted building permission No. 188 dated 10-7-2009 in favour of one Tariq Ahmad Beigh S/o Habibullah R/o Rajbagh Srinagar and others for regularization of deviation to the existing four storied shopping complex with basement floor on plot of land under survey No. 885 min situated opposite Exhibition Ground in Revenue Estate of Nursingh Garh Srinagar.
This according to the VOK was done in supersession of earlier Building Permission (No. 80 dated 03-05-2002). Similarly in furtherance of criminal conspiracy hatched by (BOCA) officers/officials Srinagar and by abuse of their official positions have granted building Permission No. 189 dated 10-07-2009 in favour of Haji Mehrahudin S/o Haji Mohammad Qasim R/o Khanyar Srinagar for regularization of deviation to the existing four storeyed shopping complex with basement floor on a plot of land under survey No.885 min situated opposite Exhibition Ground in Revenue Estate of Nursingh Garh Srinagar in supersession of earlier Building Permission No. 806 dated 18-12-200.
According to VOK statement, BOCA officials by issuing building permission (188,189 dated 10-07-2009) have regularized gross deviation/violation on the part of building owners in construction of commercial complexes, which are in contravention to approved Srinagar Master Plan 2000-2021 and provisions of COBO Act and Bye-Laws and Rules thereof.
VOK said the omissions and commissions on the part of these public servants and the beneficiaries constitute offences punishable U/S 5(1),(d) r/w Sec. 5(2) J&K P.C Act 2006 and section 120-B RPC.
Accordingly, FIR No. 11/2015 was registered at P/S VOK and further investigation taken up
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