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JAMMU: Economic Offences Wing of Crime Branch Jammu on Friday against a Naib Sarpanch and a property dealer in a land fraud case.
The 544 page charge-sheet against accused Karanjeet Singh, son of Sain Dass, resident of Badyal Qazian, Suchetgarh, R.S. Pura District Jammu and Rajinder Singh alias Rinku, Naib Sarpanch, son of Parshotam Singh, resident of Sidher, Suchetgarh, R.S Pura, Jammu in case FIR No. 85/2023 Police Station EOW, Crime Branch, Jammu in the Court of law for judicial determination after their involvement in hatching criminal conspiracy, cheating and duping the complainant Maqsood Ahmed, son of Mohd. Latief, resident of Drawtay Tehsil R.S Pura Jammu was established in the case investigated by Economic Offences Wing of the Crime Branch Jammu.
The case owes its origin to a written complaint lodged in Crime Branch Jammu by complainant Maqsood Ahmed, wherein he had alleged that on December 25, 2020 he purchased a plot of land, measuring 15 Marlas at Drawtay Tehsil R.S Pura, Jammu from the accused persons Karanjeet Singh – a property dealer and Rajinder Singh – Naib Sarpanch and property dealer for a monitory consideration of Rs 27 lakhs for which he had paid an amount of Rs.15 Lakhs as advance payment. Later an amount of Rs. 10 Lakhs was deposited in the account of accused Rajinder Singh by cheque and an amount of Rs. 5 lakh was paid by cash to accused Karanjeet Singh. Accordingly, an agreement deed was signed (agreement Biana) by the Executants and witnesses on December 26, 2020. The complainant approached the accused Karanjeet Singh for balance payment and execution of sale deed but to his utter dismay accused refused to do so. He again approached him with the request to refund his payment in case he is not able to handover him possession of the said plot. While pressing them to refund the payment accused also threatened him to kill his entire family in case he demanded his money. The accused issued cheques in his favour which were dishonoured by Bank due to insufficient amount in the account, thus duping the complainant on the pretext of sale of a piece of land.
On receipt of complaint, a Preliminary Verification was conducted and during the course of enquiry the allegations made were prima-facie substantiated, leading to the registration of a formal case under the relevant sections of law for in-depth probe.
During the course of investigation all material evidence in the form of documentary record was collected from concerned quarters besides statements of complainants and witnesses were recorded and the offences established against both the accused for cheating and duping the complainant of Rs. 20 Lakhs on the pretext of selling a piece of land, market value of which has more than 50 Lakhs as of now. Both the accused did not cooperate in the investigation process and were arrested by Crime Branch Jammu on December 6, 2023 and December 7, 2023 and charge sheet has been produced against them in the Court of law.