ACB J&K Registers Two FIRs Against Girdawar Abdul Majid Malla for Disproportionate Assets and Fraudulent Land Mutation
Srinagar, May 24: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Jammu & Kashmir has filed two FIRs against Abdul Majid Malla, a Girdawar in the Nowshera Tehsil of Boniyar, for allegedly accumulating disproportionate assets and executing fraudulent mutations in the revenue records.
The investigation revealed that Malla, formerly a Patwari in Matipora Pattan, Baramulla, amassed substantial immovable and movable assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. These assets, some registered under his name and others under his family members’, include significant land holdings in Wahigund Kunzer and properties in Pattan, Baramulla.
The accumulated properties include:
– 05 Kanals & 13 Marlas at Wahigund, Kunzer (Survey No. 04)
– 03 Marlas at Wahigund, Kunzer (Survey No. 216/73)
– 10.05 Marlas at Wahigund, Kunzer (Survey No. 215/73)
– 13 Marlas at Wahigund, Kunzer (Survey No. 91)
– 01 Kanal at Wahigund, Kunzer (in his wife’s name)
– 04 Kanals & 04 Marlas at Wahigund, Kunzer
– 01 Kanal & 10 Marlas at Wahigund, Kunzer (in his son Ishfaq Majid’s name)
– 13 Marlas with a single-storey structure and two shops at Pattan, Baramulla (in his wife’s name)
– 03 Marlas at Pattan
Additionally, Malla has constructed a double-storey house on ancestral land and has significant transactions in various bank accounts. These findings led to the registration of FIR No. 07/2024 under section 5(1)(e) r/w 5(2) J&K P.C. Act, Svt. 2006 at PS ACB Baramulla. During a search of Malla’s residence, ₹3.80 lakh in cash and other incriminating documents were seized.
Further verification uncovered that Malla fraudulently mutated over 16 Kanals of land using oral gift deeds, circumventing stamp duty and registration fees. This was done in collusion with revenue officials Bashir Ahmad Reshi, Manzoor Ahmad Khanday, and Altaf Hussain Khan. These officials illegally altered the mutation register, showing the land as gifted rather than purchased, thus facilitating significant pecuniary gains and causing losses to the government exchequer.
A second FIR, No. 08, was registered under section 5(1)(d) r/w 5(2) J&K PC Act Svt-2006 and sections 467, 468, 471, 120-B of RPC at ACB PS Baramulla against Malla and the involved revenue officials.
Investigations in both cases are ongoing.
