Jammu, Nov 26: Seeking to check corruption at high places, the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly today unanimously passed a bill to set up an accountability commission bringing under its purview the chief minister, ministers and legislators. Some of the amendments moved by the opposition were accepted by law minister Muzaffar Hussain Beig, who said he has been instructed by Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to accommodate the opposition's point of view.
He accepted the opposition's amendment that a committee comprising the Chief Justice and two senior most judges of the J&K High Court should be constituted for selecting the chairman and members of the commission instead of the seven-member committee headed by the chief minister as mentioned in the Bill.
The demand has been accepted to prove that the government does not have any intention of influencing appointment of chairman and members of the commission, he added. Bureau Report