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Search on for IAS officer

By Shujaat Bukhari

SRINAGAR, SEPT. 7. A senior IAS officer in the Jammu and Kashmir Government and two others have reportedly gone into hiding followings raids by the State Vigilance Organisation (SVO) at their residences.

The houses of Ajit Kumar, Financial Commissioner, the then financial adviser, Janak Singh, and a contractor Ghulam Rasool Vakil, were raided on Monday in connection with a case registered by the organisation. They allegedly indulged in irregularities in buying jute matting for the Education Department during Mr. Kumar's tenure as Principal Secretary (Education) in 1998-99.

According to the first information report (FIR) registered in SVO, the officer in connivance with Mr. Singh and Mr. Vakil bought jute matting worth Rs. 2.20 crore at a high rate from a firm that did not even have the necessary security deposits in the bank. The owner of the firm, Abdur Rehman, according to the FIR, showed two fake CDRs from the Punjab National Bank and the Bank of India. In this fraudulent purchase, Mr. Vakil is said to have received Rs. 47 lakhs and the owner Rs. 34 lakhs from the Education Department thus earning Rs. 12 lakhs in just two months.

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