J&K ACB Registers Disproportionate Assets Case Against JKAS Officer Zafar Iqbal

Overview

• ACB, which registered the case Thursday, accused Zafar Iqbal of amassing assets worth crores beyond his known income.
• Investigators filed FIR No. 06/2026 at the ACB Central Police Station in Jammu under Sections 13(1)(b) and 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
• Search warrants from the Special Judge Anti-Corruption Court in Jammu led to raids at his homes in Bathindi and Gursai and at his official residence in Sanat Nagar, Srinagar.
• Teams seized documents on movable and immovable properties that officials described as incriminating.
• Iqbal serves as chief accounts officer in the J&K forest department’s headquarters in Srinagar after a prior posting as treasury officer in Gandhi Nagar, and the probe now examines whether assets held by him and relatives exceed lawful earnings.