Jammu, April 21 -- The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Sunday secured the conviction of five former storekeepers of the Food and Supplies Department in a decades-old food grains misappropriation case pertaining to Pahalgam circle, while in a separate case, it presented a charge-sheet against the then Block Development Officer (BDO) Kupwara and four others for alleged embezzlement of government funds.

In the first case, the Court of Special Judge Anti-Corruption, Anantnag, presided over by Ms Masarat Roohi, convicted five former storekeepers for misappropriation of food grains and empty bags during 1989.

Those convicted include Abdul Khaliq Shah of Ashmuqam, then storekeeper at Food Supplies Sale Centres Pahalgam and Laripora; Ghulam Nab...