JAMMU: The Ministry of Interior (MHA) has returned a proposal to sanction the prosecution of three Officers of IAS of AGMUT CADRE allegedly involved in the weapons licenses in the scam in Jammu and Kashmir, citing missing documents, and ordered the main secretary to forward the proposal with all the documents within a week.
IAS officers in question include Yasha Mudgal (Lot of 2007), Shahid Iqbal Choudhary (2009 Batch) and Niraj Kumar (Lot 2010).
According to the board of March 8, MHA, the reviewed presentation must include copies of FIR, witness statements, research reports, recovery notes and opinions of the legal department, among other documents.
The sanction proposal for two other IAS officers who had served in Ladakh must be sent with administrative approval, he added. Previously, in a communication on February 12, Mha had ordered the chief secretary of J & K to advance the proposals for the sanction of the CBI prosecution for M Raju (then DM Kargil) and Prasanna Ramasswamy G (then DM Leh), with the approval of Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh.
The Department of General Administration of J & K had submitted a State Report on December 27, 2024, informing the Superior Court of J & K and Ladakh that the proposal of the UT Administration on the three IAS officers had been sent to MHA for a final decision.
The case of the IAS PK pole officer was still under review, while a clarification had been sought about the jurisdictional aspect for Prasanna Ramasswamy and Raju, it was transmitted to the Court.
The next hearing in the case of weapon license fraud is scheduled before a division bank on March 20.
Since 2019, CBI has been investigating irregularities by granting more than 2,78,000 arms licenses in J & K between 2012 and 2016, with district magistrates (DMS), attached commissioners (DCS) and licensed authorities accused of issuing licenses for monetary considerations.
CBI had sought sanction against a total of eight IAS officers published in different J&K districts.
On February 21 of this year, CBI had reserved the secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment of J&K, Kumar Rajev Ranjan, and the members of his family for allegedly accumulating disproportionate assets more than their sources of known income.
An IAS officer of 2010, Ranjan, who was previously Kupwara DC, is under the scanner of the Central Probe agency on the granting of thousands of weapons licenses to non -residents in J & K. In November 2024, the center had granted sanction to process Ranjan.
Rajasthan’s police discovered the entire racket in 2017, who wrote several letters to the then J&K government, but did not receive any response. Rajasthan’s anti -terrorism team said that 1,32,321 of 1,43,013 licenses were issued in the districts of Doda, Ramban and Udhampur in the Jammu region to those who reside outside the J&K. The figure of everything J&K was estimated at 4,29,301, of which only 10% of the licenses were issued to their residents.