Jammu, Aug 25
The Enforcement Directorate's (ED) Jammu sub-zonal office has carried out search operations in several locations in Jammu and Udhampur districts in connection with the custodian land grab case, an agency statement said on Monday.
Search operations under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, were conducted on August 22 at premises belonging to various patwaris, tehsildars, middlemen, and land grabbers, who indulged in the fraudulent land grabbing and corruption involving custodian land (land left behind by evacuees, who earlier migrated to Pakistan) measuring around 502.5 kanals, the statement said.
“ED initiated an investigation on the basis of various FIRs registered by the ACB, J&K Police. The ED investigation revealed that a whole ecosystem involving multiple government revenue officials working in collusion with private persons, land grabbers and middlemen indulged in fraudulent grabbing of around 502.5 kanals of government custodian land (land left behind by evacuees, who earlier migrated to Pakistan), in and around Jammu," the agency statement said.