Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 17: Crime Branch Jammu has produced challan against Shamas Din son of Fateh Mohammed of Halla Dhandrath tehsil and district Ramban , the then manager J&K Bank, Keshaw Raj Rakwal, son of Faqir Chand of Paloura near BSF Camp second Branch Manager J&K Bank, Kishtwar, Sanjeev Kumar Sharma , son of Shanker Dass of village Bera Bhata tehsil and district Kishtwar the then second branch Manager JK Bank Kishtwar and Zahoor –ul-Hassan Kamal, son of Wali Mohammed Kamal of Kamal Mohalla Kishtwar a notorious cheat and fraudster in the court of special judge anti corruption today.
The case FIR No 29/2010, under Section, 420, 409, 467. 468, 471,120-B RPC read with section 5 (2) PC Act Svt 2006 was registered in P/S Crime branch against them.
According to a handout issued by Crime Branch on the basis of a complaint made on December 22, 2010 by Mohammed Amin Bhawani alleging that in the month of July 2008 a fraud was detected in J&K Bank Branch, Kishtwar in which Rs 4.60 lakh was fraudulently withdrawn from four saving accounts. When the complainant and other account holders went to the Bank for withdrawal of money from their respective accounts they found that their accounts were already debited without their authority. When the account holders raised hue and cry they were assured by the Bank authorities that their money will be credited in their respective accounts.
Subsequently the Branch Manager and the staff raised the consumption loan adjusted the same into the accounts of the customers who were duped.
On the receipt of the complaint by CB a preliminary verification was initiated and during the course of enquiry prima facie offences were made and case registered in Police Station Crime Branch, Jammu and investigation started.
During the investigation I .O found that money was fraudulently withdrawn from three different accounts by one Zahoor Hassan Kamal of Kishtwar who was running a stationary shop adjacent to J&K Bank Branch, Kishtwar under the name and style M/S Wahid Dar-ul-Qutab.
After withdrawing the money Zahoor had deposited Rs 1.60 lakh in his father’s account, Rs 94,000 in the account of his mother. CB arrested Zahoor and subjected him to sustained interrogation. He admitted that he had fraudulently withdrawn Rs 4.60 lakh from J&K Bank Branch Kishtwar.
He also admitted that he had paid the share from the money withdrawn fraudulently to the then Branch Manager Shamas Din, Manager, II, Keshaw Raj Rakhwal and Manager cash Sanjeev Kumar. They too were put to sustained interrogation and they failed to give any satisfactory reply with regard to enhancing of CCI limit in favour of Zahoor Hassan from one lakh to three lakh knowing fully he was an individual of doubtful credentials and was also in the bad books of the Bank and earlier too he had tried to en cash a fraud cheque of Rs 4,86,000 which was impounded by the Bank authorities.
During the investigations it was found that the Bank employees Keshav Raj Rakwal and Sanjeeev Kumar Sharma did not intentionally compare the specimen signatures of Mst Saleema Bano, Tek Chand and Girdhari Lal from whose account the money was withdrawn with the signatures on the cheques in question.
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