J&K HC directs MHA to file fresh status report

Close on the heels of prosecution sanction granted against senior IAS officer Kumar Rajeev Ranjan, presently posted as revenue secretary in Jammu and Kashmir, a division bench of the high court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh comprising chief justice Tashi Rabstan and justice MA Chowdhary has directed the department of personnel and training in the home ministry to file an updated status report with regard to five IAS officers and others in the infamous arms licence scam being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

- Ravi Krishnan Khajuria

JAMMU:

The high court directed advocate Sumant Sudan, appearing on behalf of deputy solicitor general of India (DSGI) Vishal Sharma for the department of personnel and training in the home ministry, to file an updated status report with regard to the comments sent by the general administration department (GAD) of the J&K government on December 27 last year.

The officers were identified as Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, the then district magistrate, Udhampur; Niraj Kumar, the then district magistrate, Udhampur; Yasha Mudgal, the then district magistrate, Udhampur; Prasanna Ramaswamy G, the then district magistrate, Leh; M. Raju, the then district magistrate, Kargil; Fida Hussain (KAS), the then district magistrate, Kargil; Jitendra Kumar Singh, the then district magistrate, Rajouri; Faqir Chand Bhagat (JKAS), the then district magistrate, Rajouri; Hemant Kumar Sharma (JKAS), the then district magistrate, Rajouri; Shabir Ahmad Butt (JKAS), the then district magistrate, Rajouri.