Multi-crore scam: Crime Branch files preliminary chargesheet

Our Correspondent

Jammu, May 1

The Crime Branch, Jammu, has produced a preliminary chargesheet against a woman and her son for duping a person of Rs 6.5 crore.

Tawseef Ahmed Bhat and Shakeela, residents of Mughal Masjid, Hawal in Srinagar, were booked in a fraud case for duping the complainant of Rs 6.5 crore on account of a business deal of supplying dry fruit kernels.

The accused in connivance with the prime accused, Reyaz Ahmed Matoo, who is on the run, cheated the complainant by giving him the lure of a business deal worth crores.

During the course of the investigation, Crime Branch, Jammu, conducted a series of raids and arrested the woman and her son for fraud after tracking and chasing their locations as they were frequently on the move to evade arrest.

Searches were also conducted at their places of hiding and mobile phones, debit cards and other documents were seized.

Meanwhile, the bail applications filed by the arrested accused persons were contested by the Crime Branch and got rejected in the court once and subsequently in the court of the Sessions Judge, Jammu, twice.

However, after filing of the preliminary chargesheet against the arrested accused persons in the Court of the Sub-Judge, Jammu, the accused, Shakeela Begum, was bailed out by the court. The other accused, Tawseef Ahmed Bhat, continues to be in judicial custody.

The next date of hearing in the case has been fixed on May 9.