SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday said it has registered a disproportionate assets case against a KAS officer accused of possessing assets allegedly disproportionate to his known sources of income.
According to an ACB statement, the case has been registered against Zafar Iqbal, Chief Accounts Officer, son of Mir Hussain, resident of Gursai Mendhar in Poonch and presently residing at Bathindi Jammu. He is currently posted in the office of the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, J&K, Srinagar.
The ACB said the case was registered following a secret verification into allegations that the accused public servant had accumulated huge assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
Verification revealed that while serving at different postings, the accused allegedly abused his official position and acquired assets worth crores of rupees in his own name as well as in the names of his family members and relatives, the statement said.
The ACB said a prima facie case of criminal misconduct was established against the accused, who was then serving as Treasury Officer Gandhi Nagar Jammu and is presently posted as Chief Accounts Officer in the office of the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests Srinagar.
Accordingly, FIR No. 06/2026 was registered at Police Station ACB Central Jammu under Section 13(1)(b) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and investigation was taken up.
During investigation, search warrants were obtained from the Court of Special Judge Anti-Corruption Jammu following which ACB teams conducted searches at the residential premises of the accused at Bathindi Jammu and Gursai Mendhar in Poonch, besides his official residence at Sanat Nagar Srinagar.
During the searches, incriminating documents related to movable and immovable properties were recovered and seized, the ACB said, adding that further investigation in the case is in progress. — (KIMS)