Congress ex-minister in dock over land grab case

The State Vigilance Organisation (SVO) has registered a case against Congress leader and former minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din in a forest land-grabbing case.
The case was registered against the Congress leader and government officials after the anti-graft body carried out a verification and found out that land in south Kashmir’s Shopian district had been grabbed by tampering with revenue records.
“The verification has established that the accused officers/officials of the Revenue Department in order to confer undue benefit upon the beneficiary, Taj Mohi-ud-Din, have illegally made insertions, corrections, tempering with revenue records, thus preparing fake fictitious record and paving the way for the beneficiary to encroach upon the adjacent forest land, illegally under the garb of Section 4, 8 and 21 of the Agrarian Reforms Act, 1976,” an SVO spokesman said.
The spokesman said that accordingly, a case had been registered at the Police Station, Vigilance Organisation, Kashmir (VOK), against Atiqullah Shah, a resident of Noorabad in Kulgam, and other officials of the Revenue Department and the beneficiary, Taj Mohi-ud-Din
The spokesman said the SVO verification had revealed that the mutation of 18 kanals and 2 marlas was shown recorded under fictitious and fraudulent signatures of the then tehsildar by the then clerk, Tehsil Office, Shopian, Atiqullah shah, in connivance with other officials of the Revenue Department and the beneficiary.