JAMMU, DEC 4: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has initiated a judicialinquiry to detect people having acquired immovable property or obtainedGovernment jobs on the basis of fake permanent resident certificates (statesubjects) in the sensitive border and militancy-infested state.Headed by a former State High Court judge, A Q Parray and aided by a retiredDistrict and Sessions Judge, Mohinder Singh, the two-member inquirycommission has called upon the general public to provide information aboutall those non-permanent residents, who are in possession of the statesubject certificates. It has also invited information about non-permanentresidents who have immovable property, or obtained jobs in Government andsemi-Government organisations, corporations or universities in Jammu andKashmir, besides those having acquired facilities which are otherwiseavailable to bonafide State Subjects only.Making an appeal in particular to the government officials, sitting andformer Members of Parliament and Legislative Assembly from the state,non-government organisations, social and welfare agencies, the Commissionhas asked them to bring such matter to its notice for scrutiny. It alsoassured that the source of information received by it through individualcitizens or any socio-welfare non-government agencies, if they so desire,will be kept secret.The information solicited by the Commission can be sent to its head officesituated at room No 22 on the ground floor, Block A, Old Secretariat,Srinagar; or can be delivered in person on the above address on all workingdays in the Kashmir Division. However, in Jammu province, it may bedelivered in the office of the Divisional Commissioner at Jammu until a campoffice is provided to it by the government in the state's winter capitalcity, or may be directly posted to the head office of the Commission atSrinagar.Sources said that this followed large number of complaints about issuance ofstate subjects to non-permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir from time totime. A number of those complaints were pending disposal with revenueofficials since long.The move is, however, likely to open a Pandora's Box as a number of peoplepossessing fake state subjects were holding important positions in theGovernment. A number of others had become leading businessmen and evenindustrialists in Jammu and Kashmir over a period of time.The issue had figured during the last budget session of the Jammu andKashmir state Assembly here, with Chief Minister Farokh Abdullah assuring aninquiry into the matter.
