Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 8: In the high profile case of Habalas-e-commerce, multi-crore fraud committed in Mendhar, teams of Crime Branch Jammu conducted multiple raids and arrested one of the accused persons.
The raids were conducted after warrants were issued by the court for arrest of accused Ali Mohd, son of Ghulam Hussain of Chak Banota and Mohd Sayeed Khan son of Mohd Khalid of Dhakki Behra.
Both the accused are involved in swindling money worth crores of rupees from the gullible people by acting as prime agents of the said infamous e -commerce company on the pretext of doubling the money in short period of time. A case FIR No. 70/2019 U/S 420, 120-B /RPC was registered at P/S Mendhar and then handed over to Crime Branch Jammu for investigation.
Team of Crime Branch Jammu conducted raids and arrested Ali Mohd from Bakshi Nagar area yesterday after developing specific inputs. The accused was since long evading his arrest by changing his locations and he had also fled to Saudi Arabia after his name surfaced in the multi-crore fraud.
Raid was also conducted for arrest of accused- Mohd Sayeed Khan at his residence in Mendhar Poonch. However, on sensing the zeroing in of the Crime Branch and District Police team of Poonch to effect his arrest, the accused attacked the police party with the help of his criminal accomplices. In this regard a criminal case FIR No. 08/21 under relevant sections of law has been registered against the accused persons in Police Station Mendhar.
According to a spokesperson of the Crime Branch, Mohd Sayeed Khan is a notorious fraudster involved in many complaints for his criminal activities. His name surfaced for his involvement in the multi-crore fraud during the investigation by Crime Branch Jammu. The accused has also illegally and forcibly encroached upon the house of Mohd Aziz resident of village Chhugan Tehsil Mendhar, District Poonch. He worked as a prime agent of Habalas-e-Commerce Pvt Ltd. and remained associated with illegal collection of public money and swindled the same to his personal advantage by investing the same in his business as otherwise he has no known and reasonable sources of income.