After the revelation of missing Revenue Records and its cognizance taken by Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Dr Raghav Langer, few days back by directing SDM Jammu South for registering FIR regarding missing of vital public documents of the revenue villages Sunjwan and Chowadhi in Tehsil Bahu; now the Government has directed all the Deputy Commissioners of J&K to identify the missing of important revenue records and file FIR’s apropos to it.
In a communication marked ‘Time Bound Urget’ dated Nov 10, 2021, the Commissioner/ Secretary Revenue Department, Vijay Kumar Bidhuri has issued an order and directed the Deputy Commissioners of J&K to provide details of the missing Revenue Records on a prescribed Performa with details of the Officers/Officials responsible thereof (both in-service as well as retired) duly attested by the Deputy Commissioner so as to proceed for exemplary action against the delinquent including recovery of missing documents, lodging of FIR and fixing of responsibilities.
The order stated that the missing of certain important Revenue papers/extracts such as Record of Rights (Misl- Haqiat), Jamabandis, Girdawaris, Latthas, Massavis etc from the records of Revenue Record Room and Patwaris has been taken serious note of. Unless a record has been reported to have been missing while taking over charge report, it shall be deemed to be the responsibility of current incumbent to hand over these records.
However, the missing revenue record from the records of Patwaris or other revenue Officer/officials is a criminal offence that merits exemplary action.
The order further stated that The Revenue department already has issued circular instructions vide Circular No. 05 of Rev. of 2021 dated 02.11.2021 wherein Deputy Commissioners have been enjoined to submit duly attested statements of missing records not updated on Land Records Information System (landrecords.jk.gov.in) by or before 20.11.2021 which also merits similar action.
The Deputy Commissioners have been told to submit the reports by November 20.