MUZAFFARABAD, July 15: AJK High Court Chief Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mughal has directed the Auditor General of Pakistan, Federal Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and three others to file their comments on a petition seeking annulment of the transfer of AJK’s former Accountant General (AG) Tahir Mahmud as well as probe into the alleged misappropriation of funds in the AJK Council.
The petition has been filed by Raja Akhtar Hussain and Raja Mumtaz Khan, president and secretary general, respectively, of the AJK Pensioners Association under section 44 of the AJK’s Interim Constitution Act 1974 and it will come up for comments and preliminary arguments on July 24.
Apart from the AGP, who also happens to be Auditor General of Azad Kashmir under the region’s interim constitution and the federal ministry of Kashmir affairs, the AJK government, the AJK Council and the AJK Ehtesab Bureau have also been made respondents in the petition, wherein the petitioners, through their counsel Mohammad Yaqoob Mughal, have prayed for declaration of the June 20, 2012 order of the AGP regarding transfer of AG Tahir Mahmud as “violative of relevant law, rules, procedure and practice, based on malafide and outcome of misuse of power”.
The June 20 order was endorsed by the federal ministry of Kashmir affairs after a week, but with retrospective effect allegedly under the pressure of elements being accused of benefiting from alleged corruption in the AJK Council.
The petitioners have also prayed that the Ehtesab Bureau be directed to probe into the matter of misappropriation of funds committed by the staff of AJK Council, followed by their trial in the relevant court of law.
They also pleaded that the AG Mahmud, who had filed two references in the AJK Ehtesab Bureau about alleged corruption in the AJK Council, should not be disturbed until the completion of the probe by the Ehtesab Bureau.http://dawn.com/2012/07/16/transfer-of-ajk-former-ag-court-seeking-comments-on-petition-pleading-annulment/
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