Arms licence scam: MHA returns incomplete prosecution proposal

The home ministry has directed J&K chief secretary Atal Dulloo to resubmit the prosecution proposal within a week Ravi Krishnan Khajuria [e-mail]

- Ravi Krishnan Khajuria

JAMMU: The Union ministry of home affairs has returned incomplete prosecution proposal of three IAS officers—namely Yasha Mudgal, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary and Niraj Kumar—allegedly involved in the infamous arms licence scam, vide an official communication on February 21, with a direction to re-submit the prosecution proposal within one week again.

The incomplete prosecution proposal has been returned to the J&K chief secretary Atal Dulloo with a direction to re-submit the prosecution proposal within one week again against the three IAS officers containing the relevant enclosures, DVDs along with authenticated copies of the FIRs, disclosure statement, statements of witnesses, recovery memos, investigation report, executive summary of investigation report, draft sanction order, written statement of defence from the accused officers along with specific comments of the investigating officer, opinion and concurrence of the legal department.

A huge arms licence scam allegedly involving deputy magistrates was unearthed by ATS Rajasthan in 2017. It was being probed by the J&K Police before the CBI was handed over the case by the then governor NN Vohra.