Srinagar, July 10 -- The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has registered a case against a former tehsildar, a former naib tehsildar, a patwari and others for their alleged involvement in the fraudulent attestation of 162 land mutations in Bijbehara between 2022 and 2024.

According to an ACB statement, the accused have been identified as the then Tehsildar Bijbehara Ghulam Rasool Bhat, the then Naib Tehsildar Bijbehara Fayaz Ahmad Wani, the concerned Patwari Ghulam Nabi Banday and others.

The case stems from a source-based complaint alleging that the officials, in connivance with others, illegally attested 162 land mutations involving around 1,050 kanals of land without execution of registered transfer deeds and without payme...