Srinagar, April 20 -- A court in south Kashmir on Monday convicted five former storekeepers of the Food and Supplies Department in an over three decades-old misappropriation case involving embezzlement of food grains and empty bags.
The Special Judge, Anti-Corruption Court Anantnag, Masarat Roohi, convicted Abdul Khaliq Shah, Ghulam Nabi Mir, Mohammad Shafi Rather, Ghulam Hassan Hajam, and Muzaffar Ahmad Bichoo under Section 5(2) of the J&K Prevention of Corruption Act, 2006, read with Section 409 of the Ranbir Penal Code.
The case pertains to the period between April 1989 and September 11, 1989, when the accused were posted as storekeepers at various Food Supplies Sale Centres in Pahalgam, Laripora, Dawatoo, Aru, Ashmuqam, and Katsoo in ...