Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Dec 6: Police in south Kashmir’s Awantipora area of Pulwama district arrested three cheaters who were collecting donation in the name of a dead girl.
A police spokesman said that there three cheaters identified as Bilal Ahmad Khan, Ghulam Hassan Khan and Abdul Rashid Misger were arrested at Jawbera in Awantipora after receiving complaints from locals. “These cheaters were collecting donation (money) for a girl on the pretext that she has kidney failure, which needs to be replaced,” the spokesman said.
“On preliminary enquiry, it came to fore that the girl for whom they were collecting the money had died before two months. An amount of Rs 741 cash and an Auto rickshaw bearing registration number KMT-1496, loud Speaker and a banner has been recovered from their possession,” the spokesman said, adding police have registered a case under FIR number 133/2015 under section 420 and started probe.
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