JAMMU: Crime Branch Jammu on Tuesday registered a case against Mirza Mohammad Ashraf Malik, son of Gul Mohammad Malik and his son Shah Nawaz Malik, resident of Gagrien, District Shopian who duped people in the name of jobs in J&K Bank.
According to the FIR, a written complaint was lodged by Harbans Lal Bhagat, son of late Kanshi Ram resident of 211, Sec-1, EWS Colony Roop Nagar, Jammu, duly endorsed by CJM, Jammu at Crime Branch, wherein the complainant had alleged that while being posted in Srinagar he came in contact with accused Mirza and his son Shah Nawaz, and became close friends. As the complainant was desperately searching the jobs for his unemployed sons the accused assured to manage the employment of his sons in J&K Bank by alluring him that they are closely associated with Finance Minister A.R. Rather. As a consequence of the allurement and the assurance, the complainant paid Rs. 3.00 lakh as advance through cheque Nos. 14889, 14890 and 14891 on 30th January, 2014 amounting to Rs. 1.00 lakh each, but no appointment order was provided. On making repeated requests the accused started dilly-dallying the matter and till date nothing has happened and the accused have cheated him and duped him of his hard earned money and misappropriated the same.
On receipt of this complaint, a preliminary verification was initiated in the Crime Branch, Jammu and during the course of verification it was found that the accused persons allured the complainant on the pretext of providing jobs of cashier-cum-clerk in J&K Bank to the sons of the complainant and in turn took an amount of Rs. 3.00 lakh through three cheques bearing Nos. 14889, 14890 and 14891 out of which one cheque bearing No. 14889 was encashed by the accused from the account of the complainant whereas, rest of the two cheques were deposited in A/c No. 0018020450001036 maintained in J&K Bank Shopian, which clearly indicated that the accused in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy and by resorting to deceitful and fraudulent means received the huge amount illegally from the complainant in order to cause wrongful gains to themselves and wrongful loss to the complainant.
After completion of investigation, an FIR was lodged against accused under Sections 420, 406 and 120-B RPC.