ACB arrests clerk in Tehsil office Singhpora pattan in bribery case

Srinagar : Jammu & Kashmir Anti Corruption Bureau ( J&K ACB) on Friday said that it has arrested a Clerk posted in Tehsil office Singhpora, Baramulla for accepting bribe of Rs 2,000 for settlement of a grievance.
In a statement issued on Friday the Jammu & Kashmir Anti Corruption Bureau (J&K ACB) said that it received a complaint wherein the complainant alleged that Hilal Ahmad, a Clerk at Tehsil office Singhpora, Baramulla is demanding bribe of Rs 2000 for settling a grievance.
Stating that in the complaint, the complainant alleged that land measuring 1 kanal falling under survey No. 193, 192, 214, 264 Intikal No. 191, Khewat No. 38 situated at Daslipora Pattan District Baramulla is his ancestral property and the same has been grabbed by the Khatija (sister of father) resident of Guroo Bazar Srinagar, the J&K ACB in it’s statement further said that for the settlement of the issue the complainant on many occasions approached revenue authorities of tehsil Singhpora but they kept on delaying the matter and interestingly the complainant had also applied before the Tehsildar Singhpora, Pattan, District Baramulla for settlement of grievances.
“The application filed by the complainant with Tehsildar Singhpora was duly marked by Tehsildar Singhpora to the Naib Tehsildar concerned for verification and for taking appropriate necessary action and when the complainant approached the office of Naib Tehsildar Singhpora for redressing the grievance and for conducting verification and taking appropriate action as directed by Tehsildar, they refused to take any action and went on delaying the same because the complainant refused to give them any bribe which was demanded by a clerk namely Hilal Ahmad who is posted in Naib Tehsil office Singhpora”, reads the J&K ACB statement
Stating that the contents of complaint prima facie disclosed the commission of offence as defined under section 7 of the P.C Act 1988, the J&K ACB in it’s statement further said accordingly, a Case FIR No. 04|2022 was registered at Police Station ACB Baramulla against Hilal Ahmad, posted as clerk in Tehsil Office Singhpora, Baramulla.
In the concluding para of it’s above referred statement J&K ACB said that during the course of investigation a trap team was constituted after which the team caught Hilal Ahmad red handed while demanding and accepting the bribe of Rs 2,000 from the complainant, stating therein further that the accused Hilal Ahmad was arrested and taken into custody by ACB Team. “The bribe money was also recovered from his possession in presence of independent witnesses,” ACB statement reads, adding therein that further investigations of the case is going on