Srinagar: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday said that it has booked the J&K Police’s DySP Chanchal Singh in a disproportionate assets case.
As per the news agency CNS, the anti-graft agency said, “On 24.06.2024, Anti-Corruption Bureau Jammu registered a case FIR No. 08/2024 in P/S Anti-Corruption Bureau Jammu on the outcome of a secret verification conducted into the allegations that the accused namely Chanchal Singh, who is serving as Deputy Superintendent of Police in Jammu & Kashmir Police has acquired huge assets disproportionate to his known source of income.”
ACB said that the verification so conducted has revealed that the accused officer during his posting at lucrative posts had indulged in corrupt practices and accumulated various moveable and immoveable properties in his own name and in the names of his family members/relatives as well as benami properties, which includes immovable properties comprising of residential houses, plots, shops, business establishment in different districts of Jammu province besides two hotels located in district Kullu Manali, Himachal Pradesh and also acquired huge bank balances and valuables.
“During the course of the investigation, after obtaining search warrants from the Hon’ble Court, searches were conducted at the residences/offices of the accused as well as family members/relatives, including residential houses and business establishments located at different districts of Jammu province, Srinagar and Manali,” ACB said, adding that many incriminating documents and valuables were found, which were seized and taken for investigation purposes.
During the searches conducted in hotels at Manali (HP), ACB said that one agreement to sell dated 25th February 2022, executed between one Ved Parkash R/O Shimla and Rekha Devi W/O Chanchal Singh (DySP) was also recovered wherein the wife of said Chanchal Singh had purchased total land measuring 12.03 hectares situated at Mohal and Phati Burua Kothi in district Kullu, Manali (H.P) for the total sale consideration of rupees two crores and eighty-five lacs and out of which she has given rupees fifty lacs in advance (Rs. 25.00 lacs through cheques and Rs.25.00 lacs in cash).
“During the search conducted at Hatli, Kathua some documents pertaining to benami properties in the shape of will deeds of huge chunks of land were also recovered. The searches at different locations are still in progress,” the ACB added
