JAMMU, Mar 17: While delivering a rare and historical adjudication, the Deputy Commissioner Poonch quashed ALC certificates of two JKAS officers, who had managed selection in the Combined Administrative Services through Public Service Commission in the Jammu and Kashmir during 2017.Both the officers hailed from Mendhar Sub Division of Poonch district and are real brother and sister. While delivering the important order in his court, District Magistrate, Poonch Inder Jeet cancelled the ALC (Resident of Actual Line of Control) certificates of Sumit Kumar Sharma and his sister, Sunaina Sharma hailing from Ari in Mendhar on the ground that both the certificates were issued against the mandate of Jammu Kashmir Reservation Act 2004.Both the officers were appointed during 2017 on the basis of the ALC category issued by the then Tehsildar Mendhar. The selection list was issued on December 18, 2017. The detailed order pointed out brazen irregularities in the issuance of certificates where the issuing authority and other officials proceeded in a very casual and careless manner, the order said.Inder Jeet ordered an enquiry into the whole matter through SDM Mendhar, for completion in a time bound manner. The Counsels of the appellants Mobeen Khan and Alyas Khawaja told that the judgment is historical, detailed and reasoned one where the court touched the in depth of matter by quashing the ALC certificates of all the siblings except respondent No. 3, Jyoti Sharma, daughter of Harbans Lal Sharma, resident of Ari, at present Gohlad in Mendhar.
