Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 7: With the help of social networking website, facebook, CBI Jammu made an absconder to surrender in the Court of CJM Jammu, and thus obtained his custody.
A charge sheet was filed against the accused by CBI in September 2011 in a SBI Bank fraud case at Channi Himmat Branch, a police spokesperson said.
According to the police, the then Chief Manager and Manager CPC, SBI Zonal Office Jammu, partners of M/s Balaji Plast (India) Pvt Ltd, Logate Morh Kathua, namely Surinder Kumar Arora and Ashok Kumar Seth and other unknown civil and Revenue officials entered into a criminal conspiracy to cheat SBI, Channi Himmat Branch by fraudulently availing working capital limit amounting to Rs 1.30 crore from the Bank on the basis of inflated valuation of mortgaged land at village Ban Nagrota as well as few fake and forged bills of machinery.
Though the factory was established but much of the loan facilities were diverted by the partners of M/s Balaji Plast (India) Pvt Ltd for their own ends and no repayment was made to the Bank as a result of which the loan turned NPA, the police added.
Accordingly, a case under FIR No 6 (A)/2010 under Sections 120-B r/w 420, 467, 468, 471 RPC and Section 5(2/r/w 5(1) (d) of J&K PC Act was registered at CBI Office, Jammu, but the accused Surinder Kumar Arora was evading arrest since the registration of FIR and had left for Amritsar, Punjab to escape the law.
Kamal Sangra, Investigating Officer of the case used various surveillance techniques and was ultimately able to trace the accused using social networking website ‘Facebook’ and put sustained pressure on him, making him to surrender at last, the police said.
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