Altaf Hamid Rao,
MIRPUR (AJK): Azad Jammu Kashmir government has announced to file against 19 of the former heads and officers of Municipal Corporation Mirpur on the charges of making unlawful allotment of lands at the places of public utilization in municipal jurisdiction of Mirpur city through misuse of powers and with ulterior motives, official sources said.
An official notification issued by Inquiry wing of the Services and General Administration Department of AJK government issued yesterday said that the President of Azad Jammu Kashmir has accorded formal approval for filing reference in AJK Ehtesab (Accountability) Bureau against 19 of the former Mayor, Chairmen, Administrators, Estate Officers, Town Planners and Overseers of Municipal Corporation Mirpur for making unlawful allotments at the places of public utilization in the city during their respective tenure in their respective offices by misusing their powers. “The required action of filing the reference in the Accountability Bureau will be exercised from the level of the Secretariat of Local Government and Rural Development of AJK government”, the notification said.
The former heads and officials of the Municipal Corporation Mirpur whom the reference in the AJK Ehtasab Bureau is going to be filed include (Late) Estate Officer Zakir Nasim (of his Time), Ch Aftab Hussan (Town Planner), Raja Muhammad Fiyaz (Administrator), Bakht Jamal (Town Planner), Ch. Arshad Mahmud (Estate Officer), Ch. Muhammad Mansha (Administrator), Qazi Muhammad Arshad Nadim (Estate Officer), Khawaja Sajid Mahmood (Administrator), Faiz ul Rasool (Town Planner), Ch. Muhammad Fiyaz (Estate Officer), Muhammad Latif (Overseer), Abdul Qayyum Qamar (Administrator), Faiz ul Hassan Shah (Town Planner), Ch. Muhammad Ashraf (Mayor), Raja Muhammad Rafiq Khan (Estate Officer) , Ch. Khalid Hussain (Chairman), Ch. Mushtaq Hussain (Town Planner), Ch. Abdul Razaq (Chairman) and Muhammad Hanif (Overseer) of their respective time in their respective offices.
The AJK government took this decision under the powers conferred under sub section 2 (a) of the section 21 of Ehtesab Bureau Act 2001 obeying the verdict of the Supreme Court of Azad Jammu Kashmir dated 24.4.2017 in a case titled “Azeem Dutt v/s Khadim Hussain etc. and the continued order dated 22.11.2018 in the case titled “Robkaar Court v/s Deputy Commissioner Mirpur etc., according to the notification. Ends
