Jammu and Kashmir Anti Corruption Bureau on Tuesday registered a case against a Revenue official in disproportionate assets case.
As per the official communique, the ACB team on the outcome of a verification conducted into the allegations that the accused Ashok Kumar, then Naib Tehsildar Gharota Jammu has acquired huge assets disproportionate to his known source of income, has registered a case against him.
In 2022, the Naib Tehsildar was arrested by ACB along with his tout Raman Gupta for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 1.5 lakh for the issuance of a fard document.
Accordingly a case was registered at Police Station ACB Central on June 29, 2022 and investigation was taken up. During the investigation, verification was also initiated.
The verification conducted by the ACB has revealed that the accused public servant during his posting has accumulated various moveable and immoveable properties in his name and in the names of his family members which includes one Palatial house (duplex) situated near BDO office Akhnoor worth crores, movable assets i.e., luxury car and two wheelers, other immovable/movable assets, huge Bank accounts balance and expenditures made through the said bank accounts.
The verification further revealed that huge money was spent by the suspect on the marriage of his daughter, besides the suspect’s family having a luxurious lifestyle.
As per the probe conducted, the expenditure incurred and the value of assets acquired by the suspect are disproportionate to the income earned by him from all known sources while further investigation is going on, said the handout.
