Court Discharges PDP Leader Naeem Akhtar In 2019 Graft Case

2025-09-02 03:15:07

(MENAFN- Kashmir Observer)
Naeem Akhtar

Srinagar- Senior PDP leader and former minister Naeem Akhtar Andrabi along with two former officials of J&K Projects Construction Corporation (JKPCC) has been discharged by a special court here in a corruption case registered against them six years ago.

Observing that a criminal court has not to act as post office and become the mouthpiece of prosecution, Special Judge Anti-Corruption, Surinder Singh, said the charges against the accused under various sections of law were found to be groundless before dismissing the chargesheet filed against them in 2021.

“No case for framing of charge against the accused is made out...accused shall stand discharged accordingly. Their bail bonds shall stand discharged,” the judge said in his 27-page order passed on August 29.

In 2019, the Crime Branch of Jammu and Kashmir Police registered an FIR under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act against Andrabi, the then JKPCC managing director Vikar Mustafa Shonthu and then company secretary, JKPCC, Neeru Chadha.

The FIR was filed after the J&K administration approached the agency, highlighting alleged irregularities in the appointment of Shonthu by the former minister as the chairman of the board of directors of JKPCC.

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