Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 3: Crime Branch (CB) Jammu has booked eleven individuals, including a Bank Manager and a retired police official, in five separate fraud cases involving a total amount of Rs 3.12 crores.
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As per a Crime Branch official, the cases relate to scams involving MBBS admissions, work visas, fake Government jobs, and land deals.
He said in one of the cases, an FIR has been registered against SBI Bank Manager Javaid Ashraf Bhatti of Bahu Apartments, Gandhi Nagar, for allegedly cheating two complainants of Rs 1.78 crores.
According to him, the Bank Manager is accused of falsely promising to sell a petrol pump in Kalakote, Rajouri, under the name “Kala Kote Filling Station,” which he did not own.
In another case, he said, former Selection grade Constable (SgCT) Paramjeet Singh of Preet Nagar, Digiana, has been booked for duping three complainants of Rs 72.93 lakh.
The voluntarily retired cop allegedly offered to sell land in Birpur and Jammu, as well as a residential house in Gangyal, without having any ownership, said the CB official.
A separate FIR was registered against one Fayaz Ahmad Rather, alias Raja Fayaz, of Shopian, who runs Fayaz International Education Consultancy in Gandhi Nagar, he said.
The CB official said the accused allegedly cheated a complainant of Rs 40 lakh by falsely promising MBBS admission for his son at ASCOMS, Sidhra.
He said another case involves five accused from Doda and Kupwara districts—Mohammad Issaq, Mukhtiar Ahmad, Tariq Hussein, Mudassir Hussein, and Sher Mohd—who allegedly took Rs 12.70 lakh from four complainants by promising Government jobs.
In the fifth case, one Sahil Bhagat of Sujanpur Pathankote and others were booked for allegedly cheating seven complainants from Bishnah and Swankha areas of Rs 36.89 lakh on the pretext of providing work visas to Italy and Australia which turned out to be fake, he said.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Crime Jammu, Benam Tosh confirmed that FIRs numbered 39, 40, 41, 42, and 43 of 2025 have been registered at Police Station Economic Offences Wing, Crime Branch Jammu, with further investigations in all the cases set into motion.
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