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HC seeks updated status report in Jammu & Kashmir arms license scam investigation
The Statesman Bhubaneswar
|January 06, 2025
In a significant order, a Division Bench of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, comprising Chief Justice Tashi Rabstan and Justice M A Chowdhary (via virtual mode), directed the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to file an updated status report on the infamous Arms License Scam investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) involving five IAS officers and others.
The officers under CBI investigation for their alleged involvement in the scam include Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, then District Magistrate, Udhampur; Niraj Kumar, then District Magistrate, Udhampur; Yasha Mudgal, then District Magistrate, Udhampur; Prasanna Ramaswamy G, then District Magistrate, Leh; and M Raju, then District Magistrate, Kargil.
Additionally, JKAS officers Fida Hussain, Jitendra Kumar Singh, Faqir Chand Bhagat, Hemant Kumar Sharma, and Shabir Ahmad Butt, among others, are also under scrutiny.
This story is from the January 06, 2025 edition of The Statesman Bhubaneswar.
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