Jammu, October 5 (Scoop News) –Welcoming the Union Defence Ministry’s decision to probe the Srinagar land scam and hand over its inquiry to CBI, BJP State Chief Spokesperson & National Executive Member Dr. Jitendra Singh, who is also Convenor of the party’s state scam committee, said that this is a compliment to the senior BJP leaders, including party’s National Secretary Dr. Kirit Somaiya and State President Shamsher Singh Manhas, who had led a party delegation to the Union Defence Minister A.K. Antony and provided the latter with documentary evidence of Rs. 1000 crore scam involving defence land in the sensitive vicinity of Srinagar Airport. This is also a major breakthrough for the consistent efforts made by party’s scam committee members including Chander Prakash Ganga, Satish Sharma, Sat Sharma (C.A), Chander Mohan Sharma, Bansi Lal Bharti, Balbir Ram and Rajinder Sharma, he added.
It may be recalled that last month the BJP leadership had officially released in New Delhi and in Jammu a booklet giving details of 200 acre land worth Rs. 1000 crore having been split into 69 pieces of land and thereafter, without obtaining mandatory No Objection Certificate (NOC), clandestinely sold out with connivance among Defence officials, J&K Revenue Department Officials and private brokers. This report was also presented to Union Defence Minister A.K. Antony.
Taking cognizance of the disclosures made by BJP. the Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne held a press confernece on Monday in New Delhi wherein he disclosed that an in-house inquiry conducted by the Defence Ministry had found out that about “70 adhoc NOC’s” were issued to private realtors flouting norms for defence land which included the Srinagar air base. He further admitted that atleast the last four of these 70 adhoc NOCs had been precisely given for Air Force land over which
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