Srinagar, May 22 -- Jammu and Kashmir's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has filed an FIR against Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and a bureaucrat and five others in connection with allegations of encroaching evacuee land in connivance with revenue officials in Srinagar.

Officials said the ACB filed the FIR under section 5(1) (d) read with section 5(2) of Jammu and Kashmir Prevention of Corruption Act, 2006, and section 120 RPC on May 10 and handed over the investigation to a DSP-rank officer.

The FIR was filed after ACB conducted a preliminary enquiry into allegations that a woman was conferred undue benefit by the custodian department illegally allotting evacuee land without obtaining government sanction and without having open auctio...