Jammu, Dec 29: Division Bench of the State High Court comprising Chief Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev Kumar issued notices to Commissioner Secretaries of General Administration Department, Housing and Urban Development Department, Commissioner Jammu Municipal Corporation and Director State Vigilance Organization in a Public Interest Litigation seeking State Vigilance Organization (SVO) probe into allotment scam in Jammu Municipal Corporation. The notices have also been issued to Jeet Lal Gupta, former Commissioner Secretary Housing and Urban Development Department, R S Jamwal, former Joint Commissioner (Adm) Jammu Municipal Corporation, Madan Mohan Khajooria, former PA to JMC Commissioner, Bharat Bhushan, driver JMC, Surinder Kumar, PSO to Commissioner Secretary H&UDD, Balbir Singh (driver SUDA), Narinder Sharma (President NGO-PEACE), Chain Singh, son of Chhato Ram and Kharati Lal, son of Mani Ram seeking their response on or before February 16, 2018.
Records speaks that that JMC has indulged in making illegal/arbitrary allotments of 10 prime Municipal Flats/ Quarters situated at Gandhi Nagar in favour of the officers who had served in JMC at senior positions and later superannuated. The JMC has continued to extend allotments up to 40 years at a meager rent of Rs 600 to Rs 900 per month.
Court was also informed that an allotment of a cattle pound by former JMC Commissioner Mandeep Kour in favour of the then Joint Commissioner (Adm) R S Jamwal, who has already superannuated. In this case, JMC illegally converted cattle pound into a Municipal Flat and spent lakhs of rupees on its renovation and later gifted the same to the then Joint Commissioner.
After considering the submissions of Advocate Ahmed, DB issued notices to the Commissioner/ Secretary GAD, Commissioner Secretary H&UDD, Commissioner JMC, Director Vigilance and allottees of the Municipal Flats/ Quarters at Gandhi Nagar.
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