SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has registered a case against the former Tehsildar of Vijaypur, District Samba, and others for illegal mutation.
A spokesman, in a statement, said that the Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau registered case FIR No. 03/2025 under Section 5(1)(d) read with Section 5(2) of the J&K Prevention of Corruption Act, Svt. 2006, and Section 120-B of the RPC at Police Station ACB Jammu against revenue officers/officials namely Tarsem Lal (then Tehsildar, Vijaypur) and Zassin Malik (then Patwari, Patwar Halqa Gurha Slathia), as well as the beneficiary Rameshwar Singh and others.
“The instant case was registered following the outcome of a verification conducted by the Anti-Corruption Bureau into the allegations that the concerned revenue officer/official attested illegal mutation No. 1102 (Sehat Kasht Indraj Girdawari) of Village Rajinder Singh Pura, Tehsil Vijaypur, in favour of Rameshwar Singh as tenant (Gair Maroosi), for land measuring 81 Kanals 19 Marlas, contrary to the provisions of the Agrarian Reforms Act 1976 and guidelines notified in circulars/notifications issued by the government pertaining to the protection of state land and the procedure adopted for proprietary land,” the spokesman said.
“During verification, it surfaced that the land in some Khasra numbers is recorded as state land, but instead of evicting the encroacher from the state land, the same has been entered in mutation No. 1102 (Sehat Kasht Indraj Girdawari) in order to confer undue benefit to the beneficiary. Similarly, the land in some Khasra numbers is recorded as proprietary land, but as per the Jamabandi of 1995–96, the said land in the same Khasra numbers is recorded as state land. Whereas in mutation No. 1102 dated 06.04.2015 (Sehat Kasht Indraj Girdawari), the land of one Khasra number is entered as proprietary land, the land in the other two Khasra numbers is entered as state land. The concerned Patwari did not mention these facts in his mutation report.”
The mutation in question has also been set aside by the Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, to the extent of illegal entries made in respect of state land, with further direction for correction of the same—thereby authenticating the violations made by the concerned revenue officer/official by conferring undue benefits to the beneficiary, the statement reads, adding that the further investigation of the instant case is ongoing. (KNO)
