New Delhi: The CBI has initiated an investigation into an alleged cheating case wherein the Army was being made to pay rent for the land situated in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
It has surfaced that then Sub-Divisional Defence Estate Officer R.S. Chanderwanshi, Patwari, Nowshera, Darshan Kumar along with several private persons including one Rajesh Kumar, allegedly showed the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) land as “on rent to Army.”
The board comprising an Army officer, estate officer and other officials kept disbursing rental worth Rs 4.99 lakh for the land measuring over 122 karnals because of forged documents submitted to them, the FIR said, adding that a loss of Rs 6 lakh has been caused to the exchequer in the case.
“It has been further learnt that the Army acquired the land on rent from civilians. A board comprising Army officer, defence estate and revenue department approved the rent after physically verifying the land, but in this matter the Board of Officers, in criminal conspiracy with each other wrongly verified that the land was acquired by the Army, whereas the same is situated in PoK,” the FIR alleged.
The CBI claimed that the board proceedings were convened in 2,000, wherein Mr Chanderwanshi and Mr Darshan Kumar were declared to be under the occupation of defence forces, and the rental compensation to the tune of Rs 4.99 lakh was disbursed to Mr Rajesh Kumar.
