Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 17: The Crime Branch has filed a supplementary charge sheet against seven accused, including a demoted J&K Bank Manager, in the Rs 5 crore loan scam involving fake documents and fraudulent accounts.
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A Crime Branch official said the charge sheet was filed in the court of Special Judge Anti-Corruption, Rajouri & Poonch against Jatinder Singh, the then J&K Bank Manager (Scale-II) of Rajouri Branch, who is now demoted, Waqar Ahmed and Zaheer Ahmed, both posing as fake Junior Engineers in the Rural Development Department (RDD), Zafar Iqbal and Mohammad Shakeel, impersonating Horticulture Technicians, Mohammad Shafiq, another fake Technician, and Saleem Yousuf Bhatti, a former contractual employee of IWMP, who is now terminated.
Of the seven, Jatinder Singh and Saleem Yousuf Bhatti are in jail, while the other five are currently out on bail, he said.
He said earlier, a preliminary charge sheet had been filed against four other people identified as Mohammad Altaf, his wife Ruksana Tabassum, Zahida Parveen and Saleem Yousuf Bhatti.
According to him, the case was registered based on a complaint from the Chief Manager, Strategy & Coordination Division, J&K Bank Jammu, Mohammad Shakeel.
He said the complaint alleged that Saleem Yousuf Bhatti and others had fraudulently activated inactive accounts of the Watershed Committee at the Lassana branch in Surankote.
“They changed account names, issued fake salary certificates, and posed as Government employees to secure loans,” the Crime Branch official said quoting the complaint.
Fake Government accounts were also opened at Mendhar and Bus Stand Mendhar branches, he said.
Using forged documents and authority letters, the accused managed to get loans such as personal loans, cash credit, and car loans-amounting to nearly Rs 5 crore-causing a major loss to the bank, he further said.
Meanwhile, Senior Superintendent of Police, Crime Jammu, Benam Tosh, confirmed that the supplementary chargesheet in FIR number 86/2023 was filed by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Crime Branch (EOW) Jammu.
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