Jammu, Jun 13 : The Special Judge Anti-Corruption Court, Jammu, on Saturday dismissed a complaint filed by retired IAS officer A.K. Parmar alleging large-scale corruption against former Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta (Retd. IAS) and other officers of the Jal Shakti Department in the implementation of the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) in Jammu and Kashmir.
The court, in its order dated May 30, 2026, took cognizance of a detailed report submitted by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) which found the allegations to be baseless. The report stated that no misappropriation was noticed during the scrutiny of records, nor any violation found in the tendering process for the procurement of GI, DI, and HDPE pipes.
The court ruled that the protest petition was not maintainable and dismissed it accordingly.
Notably, this is the second such complaint by Parmar on the same issue. His earlier complaint (No. 10/2025) was dismissed by the same court on April 20, 2026.
Separately, the Central Information Commission (CIC) had on November 20, 2025, disposed of Parmar’s complaints regarding RTI applications filed with the Chief Engineers of PHE Kashmir and Jammu. The CIC had observed that the departments had provided appropriate responses as per the RTI Act, and that the information sought was voluminous and already available in the public domain. The Commission noted that no deliberate or wilful denial of information was found in these cases. (KNS)
