Srinagar, Sept 25:J&K High Court has directed the trial court to consider the challan filed by the ACB in back door entries in the Custodian Department within two months and directed the accused employees to submit fresh bail and personal bonds before trial court for their release.
Pertinent to mention here that two employees namely Khurshid Ahmad Khanday and Javaid Ahmad Bhat in the instant petition were seeking quashing of FIR filed against them along with officers of the Custodian Department who were at the helm of affairs at the point of their appointment. T
The FIR No. 22/2014 was registered by the then Vigilance Organization (now ACB) under Prevention of Corruption Act after the secret verification conducted by the ACB Kashmir on the allegations regarding illegal appointment of Khanday and Bhat in the Custodian Department by Abdul Majid Wani, the then Custodian Evacuee Property, Jammu, by abusing his official position in connivance with then Custodian General, Evacuee Property, J&K without advertising these posts as such deserving candidates were denied the opportunity of engagement on merit and open competition.
During the investigation it has surfaced that both the employees were the maternal cousins of then Custodian Evacuee Property-Abdul Majid Wani and were appointed by pick and choose method being the relatives of Custodian Evacuee Property-Wani and their regularization orders were issued after a very short term of their service on consolidated basis in total contravention to the Rules of the Government.
Justice Rajnesh Oswal dismissed the plea and directed the trial court on consider the challan proceedings expeditiously and particularly within two months with the direction to the accused-employees to file fresh bail and surety bonds before the trial court for their bail as they are already on bail in the aforesaid offence since 2019.
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