Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 29: Special Municipal Mobile Magistrate M R Chak today directed the Crime Branch to register FIR against two Government employees, who have duped two persons by giving them fake appointment orders.
The direction was passed in a complaint filed by Gurdas Kumar and Suman Lata, who submitted that Kamaljit Singh, Meter Reader presently posted at Green Belt Division-II Gandhi Nagar, Jammu and Gurpreet Singh, an employee of General Administrative Department (GAD) approached the complainants with the assurance to provide Government jobs for their children.
They lured the complainants and made them to pay Rs 11.20 lakh in the month of October 2014 and in lieu of that handed over two orders purported to be issued by Under Secretary, GAD, Civil Secretariat, Jammu dated 22-11-2014. Both the beneficiaries of these orders namely Rajeshwar and Shivam Sharma approached the concerned department for joining but they were not allowed to join stating that the orders have not been issued by the GAD.
One of the complainants filed an application in terms of Right to Information Act which came to be replied vide communication dated 12-04-2016 whereby the Under Secretary to Government GAD (PIO) stated that no Government order bearing No. 971-GAD of 2014 dated 22-11-2014 has been issued by it.
After going through the contents of the complaint, Special Mobile Magistrate directed Crime Branch to investigate the matter under Section 156(3) CrPC. “The complainants have been duped by the accused of their hard earned money and the matter needs to be investigated thoroughly so that the money extracted from them is recovered and paid back”, the court said.
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