Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, Sept 12: A team of Crime Branch Jammu today conducted searches at the residential house of Rajni Sehgal, the then Superintendent Jail Kot Bhalwal Jammu for her alleged involvement in the misappropriation of antique coins that were recovered during the year 2012 by convicts lodged while digging earth in jail premises for kitchen gardening and growing vegetables.
The search was conducted after a search warrant was obtained from the Court. In this regard, a case has been registered.
During investigation of the case, it was established that antique coins were recovered by the jail convicts in the month of September 2012 and were handed over to Rajni Sehgal on the same day by an official of the jail.
However, the Jailer intentionally did not inform her senior officers about this recovery till December 2012 in order to misappropriate the recovered coins.
When the news regarding recovery was leaked in the media and before other jail officers, she hurriedly handed-over some coins to the officer of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) which as per the record of the recovery, was less than what had been actually recovered.
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