FIR in fake appointments in Bandipore Medical Dept

Tribune News Service

Jammu, September 9

The Anti-Corruption Bureau Kashmir today registered a first information report (FIR) in the alleged fake appointments in the Medical Department in Bandipore district in Kashmir Valley.

The registration of the FIR is the outcome of the verification conducted by the bureau which looked into the allegations of illegal appointments in Medical Block, Gurez, Baramulla district (now Bandipora). It revealed that many appointment orders issued by the then chief medical officers (CMOs) of Baramulla district and deputy director, Health Services, Kashmir, in favour of Mohammad Yaqoob Nasir (as junior assistant), Farooq Ahmad Sheikh (as nursing orderly), Mohammad Sartaj Akhoon (as X-Ray boy), Mohammad Shahnawaz Sheikh (as nursing orderly), Feroz Ahmad Lone (graded safaiwalla), Ghulam Qadir Akhoon (Class IV employee) and Mohammad Anwar Lone (nursing orderly), respectively, did not coincide/exist in the records of the office of the CMO, Baramulla, as well as in the Directorate of Health Services, Kashmir, and were found to be fake, fabricated and fraudulently managed by the said beneficiaries.

The probe further revealed that the initial appointment/engagement orders issued by the then CMOs of Baramulla district in favour of Shamsudin Nasir (cleaner), Abdul Rahim Sheikh (Class IV staff) and Maqsood Ahmad Lone (Class IV staff) too were also fake/fictitious and managed by the beneficiaries fraudulently.

During the course of the verification, it further surfaced that the then block medical officers of Medical Block, Gurez, namely Dr Gh Mohi-u-din Wani, Dr Bashir Ahmad Malik and Dr Ali Mohammad Hajam and others by abuse of their official positions and in furtherance of criminal conspiracy hatched with the above-named illegally appointed beneficiaries prepared/attested the service books during their tenure without verifying the legitimacy of the appointment orders which ultimately paved the way for their status as of genuine/permanent employees by illegal and fraudulent means.

Case after verification 

The registration of the FIR is the outcome of the verification conducted by the Anti-Corruption Bureau which looked into the allegations of illegal appointments in Medical Block, Gurez, Baramulla district (now Bandipora).