For a self-respecting person of the stature of Dr. Anand, exposure of land scam of his family in Madhya Pradesh would have been enough to call it a day. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the case with Dr. AS Anand, who has not bothered to react on the exposure of even the second land scam involving his family, where his high official position has been allegedly grossly misused for personal gains. It is with this background that we have been forced to bringforth yet another land scam of his family. In this case he allegedly took a direct favour for his daughter from a litigant in Srinagar (J&K) to grant him favour in a case where he was the presiding judge and the Chief Justice of J&K High Court.

The story goes back to the year 1985, when one Mr. Krishna Kumar Amla s/o Lala Tirath Ram Amla r/o Shivpora, Srinagar filed a Writ Petition no. 1064/85 against the Union of India, Cantonment Board Badami Bagh, Srinagar and the Cantonment Executive Officer Badami Bagh, Srinagar.

Our investigations reveal that the said petitioner had allegedly grabbed the land (Khasra no. 1100/945/802) belonging to the Cantonment Board Badami Bagh, Srinagar. On May 1st 1985 the Executive Officer of the Badami Bagh Cantonment Board sent a notice to the said petitioner stating, "the land has been in army possession since 1960 and the structure being built on the encroached land". In clause 4 of the same notice he was warned, " Further construction of the structure should be stopped and all damages to the original property removed".

When the said petitioner (Mr. Amla) failed to respond to the above warning, the Cantonment Board sent another statutory notice dated 11.7.85, stating, " Now in excersise of the powers under sub section 185 of the Cantonment Act of 1924 the Cantonment Board direct you to demolish above said construction, which has / have been erected without permission of the board within 30 days from the receipt of this notice. In case of the directions of the board are not complied with withtin the stipulated period, the board will proceed under section 256 of the Cantonment Act of 1924 (II 1924)."

When it became clear to Mr. Krishan Kumar Amla that the construction on the said property will be demolished by the Cantonment Board he decided to file a writ petition in the J&K High Court, where Dr. AS Anand was the Chief Justice. It is interesting that while preparing his writ petition the said petitioner Mr. KK Amla sold a portion of his prime property, at a throw away price of only Rs.30,000/- to Ms. Shabnam Anand, daughter of Justice AS Anand. As per the local property dealers the prevailing price