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The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch Kashmir has filed a complaint expanse against 7 persons accused of misappropriation of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan strategy funds for schoolhouse gathering enactment successful Kupwara district, officials said connected Sunday (March 8, 2026).
The EOW connected Saturday (March 7) filed a complaint expanse earlier the Court of Special Anti-Corruption Judge Baramulla against 7 accused individuals for offences nether Sections 420, 120-B RPC work with Section 5(2) of the Jammu and Kashmir Prevention of Corruption Act, they said.
The lawsuit was registered connected the ground of a written ailment alleging misappropriation of authorities funds sanctioned for the operation of a schoolhouse gathering astatine the colony of Hampora Kralgund nether the SSA scheme.
The task was sanctioned for the operation of a schoolhouse gathering on with a kitchen, toilet and ramp.
During the investigation, it surfaced that though an magnitude of ₹5,73,592 had been released done assorted cheques by the past zonal acquisition serviceman Langate, mostly routed done the archetypal teacher of the superior schoolhouse Hampora, the approved works were not executed arsenic per norms, the officials said.
On the ground, lone the schoolhouse gathering operation existed, portion the room block, toilet and ramp were not constructed contempt the merchandise of funds, they added.
The probe further revealed that the accused officials, successful connivance with the contractor, entered into a well-planned transgression conspiracy and allotted the declaration successful usurpation of SSA guidelines, though the operation enactment was required to beryllium executed done colony acquisition committee members, the officials said.
The tract program of the task was besides allegedly altered for their payment by deviating from the approved program of a three-roomed schoolhouse gathering with a abstracted kitchen, toilet and ramp, and alternatively a double-storey operation with 4 rooms was constructed, they said.
Further, adjacent aft completion of the structure, the contractor failed to manus implicit the gathering to the acquisition department, portion the acrophobic officials deliberately did not instrumentality possession, enabling different accused to inhabit the gathering illegally, they said.
On the ground of grounds collected during the people of the investigation, offences nether the applicable provisions of instrumentality person been established against the accused persons, and the lawsuit has been challaned earlier the competent tribunal for judicial determination, the officials added.
