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JAMMU: Economic Offences Wing of Crime Branch Jammu on Thursday produced challan against accused husband-wife duo for cheating students by providing them fake diploma certificates to get job in Public Health Engineering Department as skilled workers.
The 301 page preliminary charge-sheet in case FIR No. 11/2017 under section 420,465,468,471,120-B RPC Police Station Crime Branch Jammu against accused Husband-wife duo Gurbaksh Singh alias G.B Singh (MD-Kissan Institute of Technology, R.S Pura), son of Late S. Sewa Singh, resident of H.No. 64 W.No. 08 R.S.Pura Jammu at present H.No.177 near Geeta Mandir Bakshi Nagar Jammu and Bharti Bhat (Principal KIT, R.S Pura), wife of Gurbaksh Singh, daughter of Jia Lal Bhat, resident of H.No.177 near Geeta Mandir Bakshi Nagar Jammu for cheating students by providing them fake diploma certificates of Plumber, Electrician etc. posing as Managing Director and Principal of Kisan Institute of Technology R.S. Pura, Jammu, knowingly that they were not authorized to conduct such examinations and issue diplomas for various NCVT and SCVT trades, which were further used by students for job in PHE Department as skilled workers.
Giving the brief facts of the case, an official handout stated that a complainant titled Harpreet Singh and others V/S Executive Engineer PHE Department, Division Poonch, was received in Crime Branch Jammu from the Vigilance Commission J&K to the effect that some candidates having Plumber/Electrician diploma certificates from Kissan Institute of Technology R.S. Pura, Jammu were engaged by the Executive Engineer, PHE Poonch, as need based casual labourers but on verification of their diploma certificates through Directorate of Technical Education, it was found that these diploma certificates were fake. It was also revealed that permission/affiliation granted by the Directorate to the Kissan Institute of Technology, R.S. Pura, Jammu an Industrial Training Institute (ITI) for running the courses under NCVT and SCVT was also kept in abeyance till further orders and the institute was not allowed to make any admissions in any of the trades from August, 2016. However, the institute in violation of the norms and the standing orders and in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy admitted the students and issued them fake diploma certificates, which were used by these candidates in order to secure Govt. job through fraudulent means.
On receipt of the complaint alongwith the verification report instant case was registered by Crime Branch Jammu under the relevant sections of law for indepth investigation. During the course of investigation, material evidence in the form of documentary record, FSL report was collected from concerned quarters besides statements of complainant/witnesses u/s 161 Cr.PC was recorded and also keeping in view the circumstantial evidence enumerated above, it has been found that the accused cheated the students by providing them fake Plumber/Electrician diploma certificates /diplomas for NCVT trade and SCVT trades, knowingly that they were not authorized to conduct such exams and issue such diplomas. Offences U/S 420,465,468,471,120-B RPC has been proved against accused persons.
In the meantime EOW-CB Jammu also produced charge-sheet in another case FIR No. 68/2022 U/S 420, 465, 468, 471/RPC P/S Crime Branch Jammu for judicial determination.