JAMMU: Crime Branch (CB) Jammu on Wednesday registered a case against Mohammad Amin Khan, an employee of Education Department, Civil Secretariat, who impersonated himself as Personal Assistant (PA) to the then Chief Minister and duped people of lakhs of rupees on the assurance of government jobs. The accused took over Rs 85 lakh from various unemployed youth.
The CB investigators have recovered Rs. 29,83,730 deposited in his daughter’s account while Rs. 3,86,963 were found deposited in the name of one Mushtaq Khan.
According to FIR, a written complaint was lodged by Mohan Lal, son of Kaka Ram, resident of Moultian Klan Tehsil and District Samba, wherein he alleged that he came into contact with one Mohammad Amin Khan, resident of H. No 485 Housing Colony First Stop Bagh-e-Mehtab, Budgam,Srinagar who projected himself to be highly influential person and posted as PA to the Chief Minister.
The contact matured into a relationship as the said Amin Khan became brother of the wife of the complainant and assured that since he is working with then Chief Minister he can arrange class fourth jobs for their both sons as he himself is the member of the selection committee and that some amount shall have to be paid which is to be shared amongst other members of the committee.
As a consequence of the allurement and the assurance the complainant paid Rs. 25 lakh but no appointment order was issued.
Later, Amin Khan asked them to arrange some more candidates for backdoor appointments and an amount of Rs. 85 lakh (approx) was provided to him through bank account number 49630 of J&K Bank, Residency Road, Srinagar and account numbers 6498 and 211071, 206030 of J&K Bank, Hari Singh High Street, Srinagar and through cash.
Crime Branch, Jammu on receipt of the complaint, initiated a preliminary verification and during the course of verification it was found that accused Mohammad Amin Khan was actually an employee of Education Department, Civil Secretariat and not PA to Chief Minister though he impersonated as such and duped a large number of innocent unemployed persons on the pretext of providing them government jobs.
The account number SB-49630 provided by the accused to the complainant existed in the name of Tawheeda Khan, daughter of accused Mohammad Amin Khan and an amount of Rs. 29,83,730 was found deposited in this account whereas account number SB-21172 was in the name of one Mushtaq Ahmed Khan, son of Mohammad Akram Khan, resident of Sarai Bala, Srinagar and an amount of Rs. 3,86,963 was found deposited through credit from different branches of Jammu province which clearly indicated that the accused under a conspiracy with his daughter Tawheeda Khan and one Mushtaq Khan by resorting to fraudulent means and in sheer misuse of his official position being a government servant, received the huge amount illegally from the complainant and others.
The omissions and commissions on the part of Mohammad Amin Khan, Tawheeda Khan and Mushtaq Ahmed Khan prima facie, constitute offences punishable under Section 420,406,120-B RPC read with Section 5(2) Prevention of Corruption Act, Svt 2006. Accordingly, a formal case was registered in Police Station, Crime Branch, Jammu and investigation of the case set in motion. The investigation of the case has been entrusted to DySP Abdul Wahid Giri.