Name them to shame them!
Roshni Scam: The Names of State Land Grabbers -I
NL Desk
This is not a complete story but just the tip of iceberg in the ocean of big political loot in Jammu Kashmir.
When Ghulam Nabi Azad, the then Chief Minister brought an idea of rewarding all those bigwigs for grabbing state land in the state, he knew that he was creating a ‘Black-hole' that would swallow the entire artificial ‘Roshni.'
The scheme and its operation in the state landed into a long-drawn controversy which has been going more complex and confused with every passing day.
Few days back the state Government hit a final nail in the coffin, when it expressed its inability to probe nearly 80,000 cases both already disposed and pending with the scandal-ridden Revenue Department.
The Roshni Scheme stands challenged before the JK High Court without much progress due to non-cooperative attitude of the District Administration. Further the scheme being already under scrutiny of Public Accounts Committee of Legislature and progressing too at snail's pace indicates that people will have to wait at least till 2022 to know about the truth.
The Northlines has, in its possession, a long list of cases examined and audited by the CAG units which are test cases and contains many big names of top political figures in and out of government, serving and retired bureaucrats, top businessmen who possessed the state land and availed huge benefits worth crores of rupees.
We are reproducing the first list in series for the information of our readers and for all those for whom it would serve as a grim reminder to act in public interest.
