The move comes as some of the documents in the case were reportedly found missing.
Jammu:
A team has been formed by the Kathua Collector to trace certain documents related to the allocation of land to an educational trust in Jammu and Kashmir, which is the subject of a preliminary investigation by the CBI, officials said.
The move comes as some of the documents, requested for review by the central investigative agency, were reportedly found missing, officials said.
“A team has been formed by the Kathua Collector to locate documents relating to the land allocation,” said an official, requesting anonymity.
Previously, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) requested details from a former deputy commissioner in Kathua as part of its preliminary investigation into allegations of land grabbing by the education trust headed by a former minister.
The CBI last month registered a preliminary investigation (PE) against Kathua’s RB Educational Trust and unidentified officials to investigate allegations of illegal gratification and unnecessary consideration by Kathua’s revenue and forestry officials for authorizing the sale and purchase of forest land, officials said. .
During the preliminary investigation, the agency tried to find out whether there were elements allowing the formal registration of a regular case or an FIR to initiate an investigation.
The trust, headed by former Jammu and Kashmiri Minister Lal Singh, has a school, bachelor of education and nursing schools on the ground. His transactions have now come under the central agency’s scanner for alleged irregularities in the purchase of the land, they said.
According to the CBI MOU, it is alleged that false certificates claiming that this land falls within the exempt category under the Land Reform Act of Jammu and Kashmir were used in its purchase by the trust for the education, officials said.
The CBI’s preliminary investigation alleged that the trust, the beneficiary of these alleged illegal acts, continues to be in possession of huge tracts of land in flagrant violation of the cap prescribed under the JK Land Reform Act 1976 , they said.
During the preliminary investigation, no search can be carried out or no one can be summoned to record statements without consent. Lal Singh left BJP last year and started Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan (DSS).
He and then industry minister Chander Prakash Ganga resigned from the PDP-BJP waiver in 2018 after questions were raised about their participation in a Hindu rally in Ekta Manch organized in support of those arrested in connection with the rape and murder of an eight-year-old man. – old maid in Kathua that year.
