Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, July 28: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has booked a Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) employee and some bank officials for alleged embezzlement of Rs 56 lakh in the Poonch District.
The case, registered under FIR number 03/2025 under sections 7, 13(1)(a) read with 13(2), Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (as amended in 2018) and sections 120-B, 467, 471 IPC against Mohammad Jameel, the MTS employee, formerly posted in the office of Collector Agrarian Reforms, Poonch, and others for allegedly embezzling Rs 55,99,947 from Government accounts, followed a complaint by the Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Poonch, Tahir Mustafa Malik, an ACB official said.
According to him, the ADC had alleged misappropriation of the huge amount from CD accounts of the Deputy Commissioner’s office.
Following the complaint, he said, a departmental enquiry led by Additional District Development Commissioner Poonch, Sandesh Kumar Sharma, confirmed the fraud had occurred between January 2019 and October 2023.
He said the investigations revealed that Jameel, a resident of Chandak Village, tehsil Haveli, District Poonch, allegedly siphoned off the funds from three Government accounts at J&K Bank, Poonch city branch, by forging signatures of the Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs) or using his own.
He reportedly transferred the stolen funds to his personal account and accounts of relatives and unidentified persons.
The ACB official stated that Jameel carried out the fraud in connivance with certain J&K Bank officials, who cleared fake invoices despite signature mismatches.
He added that the case has been registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act and various IPC sections related to criminal conspiracy and forgery.
According to him, searches were also conducted at the accused’s premises in Poonch with the assistance of local police in presence of magistrates.
During the searches, ACB has seized several records and confirmed that detailed scrutiny will follow in the course of investigation.
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