HC stays probe with regard to Corruption Act

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JAMMU: In a petition filed by Mohd Saleem a cop seeking quashment of FIR No. 43/2016 registered on 13th May, 2016 under sections 420, 465, 467, 468, 471 RPC against the petitioner by Crime Branch.
Justice Tashi Rabstan after hearing Advocate Abhinav Sharma appearing for the petitioner, issued notice to Crime Branch returnable wthin four weeks and meanwhile subject to objections from other side, proceedings in FIR NO 43/2016 under sections 420, 465, 467, 468, 471 RPC registered with Police station Crime Branch Jammu to the extent section 4-A, 4-C and r/w section 5(2) PC Act SVT 2006 with respect to the petitioner shall remain stayed.
According to the report reveals that a written complaint was lodged by Vikramjeet and three others wherein it was alleged that being unemployed they were allured by applicant-accused, who personated himself to be an employee of Railways Department and assured having easy access to the higher ups, he can arrange and provide jobs to them subject to payment of Rs. 3.00 lakh each. Felling in to the trap, the complainants gave Rs. 3.00 lakh each to the applicant-accused upon which he took all of them to Kharagpur, Jharkhand and kept them therefore about three months but without any job and thereafter vanished in air, thereby cheating and duping themof their hard earned money.
On the basis of this complaint a PV was initiated and during the course of verification it was found that the applicant-accused after taking money from the complainants had provided orders issued under No. 1E/651/MC/COMML/P/1/S, 2.P/L-NO.ELS/1081 dated 8th October, 2013, No. IE/672/MC/COMML/P/1/S, 2.P/L-NO. ELS/1072 dated 8th October, 2013, No. DRM (IR) 147/D/IR/DEL/NCR dated 7th March, 2014 and No. DRM(IR) 135/D/IR/ DEL/NCR dated 7th March, 2014, to the complainants showing them all to be appointed. However, on verification of these orders from Railways Department all of them were found to be fake. During verification it has also come to the fore that out of Rs. 12.00 lakh paid by the complainants to the accused, an amount of Rs. 1,35,000 was credited in the account of accused maintained in PNB bearing A/C No. 0517000100158052 and the accused had withdrawn the amount through ATM from different locations. It also revealed during inquiry that accused has caused wrongful gains to him and wrongful loss to the complainants by preparing fictitious orders and took a huge amount of Rs. 12.00 lakh from the complainants.

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