Jammu, May 27 -- The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Monday booked a former director and seven institutes in connection with an alleged post-matric scholarship scam in the tribal affairs department which led to misappropriation of government funds worth crores of rupees in Jammu and Kashmir between 2014 and 2018.
Those booked in the case include the then Director of Tribal Affairs, M S Choudhary; Shanaz Akhtar Malik of Catalog Computers, Humera Banu and Firdous Ahmed of Chirag Institute of IT, and Sham Lal Targotra of JKS Industrial Training Institute.
"Anti-Corruption Bureau registered a formal case against Choudhary and others into the allegations of gross violation of guidelines and release of crores of rupees to unrecognised institute...