Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 6: Crime Branch Jammu has booked a Taxation Counsel and his wife for cheating their client by forging documents.
An FIR has been registered against Income Tax Lawyer Rajesh Verma and his wife Sangeeta Verma of 163/3 Trikuta Nagar Jammu for preparing fake documents and causing huge loss to his client. The case has been registered following a complaint by Pardeep Kumar Puri, of 171-A/D Gandhi Nagar, Jammu.
In his complaint, Mr Puri said that his father had purchased a house bearing No. 74/8 in Trikuta Nagar, Jammu for an amount of Rs 20 lakh but no formal sale deed was executed and only agreement to sell was prepared on the advice of Advocate Rajesh Verma, who was engaged as an Income Tax consultant by his father. The said house was thereafter rented out to M/s A2Z Maintenance & Engineering Service Pvt Ltd but the accused substituted the original rent deed with a fake and fraudulent one, prepared in the name of his wife and received the rent from the tenants and thereafter paid the same to the real owners through payees cheque issued from the account of Sangeeta Verma. However, after some time, these payments were discontinued thereby causing huge monetary loss to Mr Puri. It was further alleged that accused with a criminal intention and in order to usurp the property left by the father of the complainant also manipulated the power of attorney and agreement to sell in respect of Hall No.3 situated at Gandhi Plaza, Gole Market, Jammu, which was purchased by his late father and substituted the name of his wife, who received all the payments through her bank account etc.
During the course of enquiry, it was found that Rajesh Verma had prepared fake rent deed and caused huge loss to the complainant. Accordingly, case FIR number 13/2015 under Sections 420, 406, 465, 466, 467, 468, 471, 120-B RPC was registered in Crime Branch, Jammu and further investigation was taken up.
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