Srinagar, Nov. 5 -- Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau on Tuesday registered a case in illegal petrol pump construction in Budgam, informed officials. A case was registered under FIR No. 21/2025 at police station, ACB, Srinagar, following a verification conducted on the basis of a complaint received from inhabitants of Arigam village, Budgam. "The verification revealed that one individual, Ali Mohammad Khan s/o Sonaullah Khan r/o Arigam Budgam, had constructed a petrol pump on Kahcharaie land at Arigam in June 2020, on the basis of a license issued by the competent authority on manipulated and misleading facts. "Investigations disclosed that during 2018, NOCs were issued by the then Arigam patwari, naib tehsildar, and tehsildar Khansahab for proprietary land under survey numbers 531 and 533 Min. However, these officers deliberately omitted to record that access to the said land was only through state/kahcharaie land and failed to mention that the land was separated from the main road by Kahcharaie land prone to encroachments," the ACB statement said, adding that during probe it surfaced that the concerned Patwari concealed the existence of survey number 532 (Shamilat land) while preparing the Khaka Dasti, thereby misrepresenting the factual position of the site. The ACB said that the concerned revenue officers and officials, by abuse of their official positions and in criminal conspiracy with the beneficiary, facilitated encroachment on State land and conferred undue pecuniary benefit upon the said individual. "Accordingly, offences under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (as amended in 2018) and Section 120-B of IPC have been established against the accused public servants and beneficiaries. Consequently, a case has been registered at police station ACB Srinagar.Further investigation of the case has been taken up," the statement read.htc...