Corruption Storm Brews at Sopore Fruit Mandi Over 'Bogus' 73-Name List; AMO Dismisses Allegations as 'Baseless'
Jammu, Aug. 14 -- Share Tweet Share SOPORE, AUG 14 (KNS) : A fresh controversy has engulfed Asia's second-largest fruit mandi in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, with a newly-formed traders' body accusing the administration of circulating a "bogus" list of beneficiaries for Shed No. 16 without any official sanction. The charges have been met with a sharp rebuttal from the Area Marketing Officer (AMO), who has dismissed the list as a mere "temporary" arrangement. The Kashmir Fruit Traders Association, led by Zahoor Ahmad Bhat, on Friday held a press conference here, training its guns on the mandi administration over what it called a "blatant misuse of official position." Bhat claimed that the list-containing 73 names-was conspicuously d...
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