Mendhar Pvt Company fraud case
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 30: In a major breakthrough, Crime Branch, Jammu has recovered a huge amount of Rs 30.50 lakhs from the accused persons besides seizure of four new vehicles in fraud case by operators of a private company at Mendhar in district Poonch.
The Crime Branch Jammu has registered a case FIR No. 70/2019 u/s 420/RPC against the company operators for duping innocent people of the area of their money and committing fraud worth crores in Poonch and Rajouri area. Some influential people of Mendhar area were said to be trying to shield the accused persons for their vested political interests.
The money was swindled by the accused from the gullible people of tehsil Mendhar and other areas of Poonch and parts of Rajouri, after inducement on the pretext of providing them different products with huge interest. The amount was recovered after a sequence of action and intelligence development by the SIT of Crime Branch, Jammu which resulted in grilling the accused and suspects to effect the recovery. The amount was paid by the accused Tariq Mehmood to Javaid Iqbal, son of Mir Mohd, from Dharana in tehsil Mendhar for further investment.
The other recoveries made in the case so far include recovery of an amount to the tune of Rs 25, 99,500 (Total amount recovered worth Rs 56.50 lakhs) besides, seizure of vehicles No. JK02CE-8650 Scorpio, JK02CF-7112 Scorpio, JK02CD-1112 Creta and JK02CD-7851 Jeep Campas. Shops and building belonging to the accused have also been sealed.
Brief facts of the case are that on May 16, 2019, a complaint was lodged with Police Station Mendhar Abdul Karim, son of Raj Mohd from Pathanteer in Mendhar and others, alleging therein that accused Tariq Mehmood, son of Mohd Aziz from village Chhugan Tehsil Mendhar; Murtaza Ahmed, son of Mohd Bashir from Chak Banok in Mendhar; Imtiaz Ahmed son of Mohd Aziz from village Chhugan in Mendhar and others induced the gullible people of Tehsil Mendhar and its surrounding areas of providing different products with huge interest and duped them of crores of rupees. On receipt of the said complaint case FIR No. 70/2019 u/s 420/RPC was registered at P/S Mendhar.
Being a case of immense public importance, the investigation of the case was transferred to Crime Branch, Jammu by PHQ J&K on 20-05-2019 and the investigation of the case was taken up by the Crime Branch on May 22 and accordingly a SIT was constituted by Crime Branch, Jammu to have in depth investigation of the case. During the course of investigation, six accused persons have been arrested by Crime Branch in the case and the preliminary charge sheet of the case has been produced before the Court of Judicial Magistrate First Class, Mendhar, against the 06 accused persons.Further investigation of the case was in progress.
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