Jammu- A courtroom right here on Tuesday sentenced a authorities officer to 3 years in jail in a disproportionate belongings case.
The officer was additionally requested to pay a fantastic of Rs 50 lakh by the particular anti-corruption courtroom, a spokesman of the Crime Department of the Jammu and Kashmir Police stated.
Nisar Khan, a piece officer posted on the Jammu deputy commissioner’s workplace, acquired belongings disproportionate to his recognized sources of revenue by indulging in corrupt practices and by abusing his official place as a public servant, the officer stated.
Khan possessed disproportionate belongings to the tune of greater than Rs 84 lakh, the officer added.
Particular Choose of the Anti-Corruption Courtroom, Jammu, Tahir Khurshid Raina sentenced Khan to 3 years imprisonment and imposed a fantastic of Rs 50 lakh on him below the Jammu and Kashmir Prevention of Corruption Act, 2006.
“The fantastic quantity, if not paid by the convict inside a interval of two months, shall be recovered by the district collector from the disproportionate belongings of the convict as arrears of land income,” the Choose stated within the order.
The Choose additionally directed the Senior Superintendent of Police of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, Jammu to observe the execution of the sentence awarded.
Whereas sentencing Khan, the courtroom referred to the mandate of the Supreme Courtroom that Judges who bear the sword of justice mustn’t hesitate to make use of that sword with the utmost severity to the complete and to the tip, if the gravity of the offence so calls for.
The case was registered in 2007 primarily based on verification carried out into the allegation that Khan amassed big belongings within the type of movable and immovable properties.
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