STATE TIMES NEWS
Jammu: Crime branch of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday filed a chargesheet against a retired school principal for duping a family of over Rs 1.54 lakh on the pretext of arranging a government job for their daughter in Rajouri district, an official said.
Davindra Singh Soodan, son of Keher Singh, resident of Ward No. 14 near Rattan Palace Kathua, the then Principal, Higher Secondary School Panorma in District Rajouri, was chargesheeted in the court of law after an investigation by the crime branch found him guilty of cheating the complainant, a spokesperson of the agency said.
The official said the case stems its origin from a written complaint lodged by Ghulam Sadeeq of Rajouri alleging that accused who was working as a principal in a private institute in the district took an amount of Rs 1.54 lakh from him after assuring him to provide a government job to his daughter in lieu of his deceased wife on compassionate grounds. On receipt of the complaint, a preliminary verification was initiated and during probe the allegations were prima facie substantiated, leading to the registration of formal case for indepth investigation. During the course of investigation relevant record was seized, statement of witnesses recorded, Scientific, Circumstantial and other material evidence was gathered and offences U/S 420/IPC P/S Crime Branch Jammu were established against the accused for having cheated and dupted the complainant of his hard earned money. Charge sheet was produced in the Court of law against the accused persons for judicial determination.