Senior town planner booked for illegal building permission

The Jammu and Kashmir State Vigilance Organisation (SVO) has booked a senior town planner (STP) for illegal grant of a building permission in Jammu city.
A case has been registered against the then STP of Jammu Municipal Corporation, Farzana Naqashbandi, for giving building permission in contravention to approval of the competent authority to one Sanjeev Nagpal, an SVO Spokesman said.
A joint surprise check was conducted into the illegal construction on a plot in the posh Gandhi Nagar locality, he said, adding it revealed that the building permission was accorded in contravention of the approved site plan.
The building permission order was issued as "residential building" instead of a renovation and repair order by the then STP, the spokesman said.

The aforesaid "act of omissions and commission" on the part of Naqashbandi, Nagpal and others constitute offences punishable under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The investigation has begun into the case, he said.