Baseer Khan removed as Advisor to J&K Lt Governor Manoj Sinha

JAMMU, OCTOBER 5: The Jammu and Kashmir Government on Tuesday relieved Baseer Ahmad Khan of the charge of advisor to the UT’s Lt Governor with immediate effect.

According to an order issued by the Jammu and Kashmir general administration department, Khan, a retired IAS officer of 2000 batch, was relieved of the charge following a communication from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.

Khan was made an advisor in March last year when GC Murmu was the Lt Governor, and he continued in the post under Murmu’s successor Manoj Sinha.

His removal from the post came all of a sudden and the reasons behind it were not immediately known.

However, he was among nearly 20 people including former Kashmir Divisional Commissioner Mehboob Iqbal named as accused in the Gulmarg land scam. The Jammu and Kashmir State Vigilance Organisation which later became Anti Corruption Bureau of the UT had chargesheet against the accused including Baseer Khan in 2013. 

In June last year, the UT’s Anti Corruption Bureau filed a second chargesheet in the Gulmarg land scam again naming Baseer Khan as one of the accused.