Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 31: Crime Branch today produced challan against three fraudsters in the Court of CJM Jammu.
According to the case, one Dev Raj, son of Attar Singh of Gayal Bhand, Hiranagar lodged a written complaint with SSP Crime Branch, Jammu mentioning that he came across one Manohar Lal, son of Thoru Ram of Chann Tanda, Hiranagar and the former told him that Kamal Singh, son of Majra Singh of Dhiaran, who was a retired Army Naib Subedar, had links with Secretariat employees and he can manage Government jobs as class IV employees.
On the motivation of Manohar Lal, the complainant paid Rs 1.5 lakh whereas another person namely Mohinder Kumar, son of Sansar Chand of Hiranagar paid Rs 90,000 to the accused Kamal Singh on May 1, 2009 at Bus Stand Jammu in presence of accused Manohar Lal for getting Government jobs for their wards as class IV employees.
After taking the total amount of Rs 2.40 lakh, Kamal Singh asked both the complainant and Mohinder Kumar to collect the appointment orders next day, which he never gave and started avoiding them on one pretext or the other. Finally, the complainant came to know that accused Kamal Singh was associated with some other accused persons namely Monohar Lal, Darshan Lal, Jasbir Singh and Mohd Anwar, who had been duping the innocent people under false assurances of providing jobs to them.
On the basis of this complaint, a formal case was registered. During the course of investigation, accused Kamal Singh and his other associates were arrested and on the disclosure of accused Kamal Singh the entire amount of Rs 2.40 lakh paid to him by the complainant was recovered from his house.
Some registers including original school leaving certificates, state subject certificate of one Anchal Kumar, photostat copies of certificates of other aspirants and hand written list of candidates were also recovered, seized and accordingly got caparisoned through FSL which confirmed the similarity in both the questioned as well as the specimen writings.
During investigation, no cogent evidence came up against Jasbir Singh and Darshan Lal, who were also named by the complainant to be associates of the accused persons. Accordingly, they were given the benefit of Section 169 CrPC.
On the basis of oral as well as documentary evidence collected during the investigation, the offences under Sections 420, 120-B RPC were fully established against accused persons namely Kamal Singh Bhau, Manohar Lal and Mohd Anwar, who have been challaned in the Court of law for judicial determination.