Jammu, Oct 9: If one will go deep on Patnitop Develoment Authority's various issues, lot of scam shall come out by this way or the other.
However, hottest going is of Master Plan Violations in illegal constructions & other matters related to & cases were registered & enquiries were ordered & therafter case was transferred to CBI & after various court orders, CBI has filed six charge sheets in connection with alleged grabbing of forest and agricultural land by hotels and guest houses in collusion with former CEOs of Patnitop Development Authority in Jammu region.
In its charge sheets filed before special Judge Anti-Corruption, Bala Jyoti, the CBI has named Rajinder Kumar, CEO, two Khilafwarzi inspectors Avesh Jasrotia and Zaheer Abbas besides eight hotel owners.
The agency has also named as accused owner of hotel Mount View Syed Mushtaq Shah, hotel Dream Land Nazir Shah and Samina Shah, hotel Broadway Zubeida Begum, hotel Shahi Santoor Shakeel Shah, hotel Holiday Inn Koushal Magotra and Virender Kesar and hotel Hollywood Ameen Shah.
Investigation revealed that accused public servants did not take steps to remove illegal constructions, etc.
Pertinent to mention here that the CBI had taken over investigation in 2020 on the directions of Jammu and Kashmir High Court where a public interest litigation was filed by the president of the Hotel and Restaurant Association, Patnitop, alleging glaring violations of the master plan of the Patnitop area, which had alleged that 70 per cent of hotels and restaurants have been constructed without permission.
It is to mention here Tourism Department, BOCA of PDA & PDA Authorities are harassing hundreds for their genuine Building Permissions as BOCA did not clear since year or more followed by using Bye Laws of Master Plan of 2000 because year 2023 is going to end & which is violation of Development Act of 1970 as Master Plan Was needed to be revised after a gap of every five years as per need of the day but Chairman PDA/Concerned department/ PDA are still sleeping to revise the Master Plan raised a question on all of them for violations & causing harassment to innocents?
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