Jammu, June 13: The Special Judge Anti-Corruption Court, Jammu, vide its order dated 30-05-2026, has dismissed a complaint filed by retired IAS officer A.K. Parmar alleging large-scale corruption in the implementation of the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) in Jammu and Kashmir, particularly in the procurement of GI, DI, and HDPE pipes.
The court, while taking cognizance of the detailed report submitted by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), observed that the allegations against former Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta (Retd. IAS) and other officers of the Jal Shakti Department were baseless.
From the report, it has transpired that neither any misappropriation was noticed during the scrutiny of the records nor any violation was found in the tendering process of procurement. The court ruled that the protest petition was not maintainable and accordingly dismissed it.
Notably, this is the second such complaint by Parmar on the same issue. He had earlier filed Complaint No. 10/2025 with identical allegations, which was dismissed by the same court on April 20, 2026.
Pertinently, the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) vide order dated November 20, 2025 had disposed of Parmar’s complaints regarding RTI applications filed with the Chief Engineers of PHE Kashmir and Jammu.
The CIC had observed that the departments had provided appropriate responses as per the RTI Act, and that the information sought was voluminous and already available in the public domain. It has further been noted that respondents from both Srinagar and Jammu had sent appropriate responses to the complainant in terms of the provisions of the RTI Act 2005.Therefore, no question of deliberate or wilful denial of information is found in these cases.
