Crime Branch Jammu unearthed fake appointments in Power Development
Department (PDD). Two Engineers (1) Pallav Gupta S/O Romesh Gupta R/O Village
Bakore A/P Rajpura Mangotrain, Jammu and (2) Sagar Kumar S/O Raj Kumar R/O
Chak Jaralan Tehsil Bishnah District Jammu managed their fake appointment orders
in PDD as Junior Engineer against sports quota. Interestingly both of them have
never played even school games but managed their appointments against sports
quota of players who are champions at National/International level competitions.
Crime Branch Jammu has registered FIR against the fraudsters Pallav Gupta
and Sagar Kumar for cheating and fraud in false and fake appointments orders. Both
Engineers manage their appointment orders vide Govt. order no. 611-GAD of 2017
dated 18.05.2017 and 708-GAD of 2018 dated 26-04-2018 respectively. Both the JEs
have been dismissed by Chief Engineer, J&K Power Transmission Corporation
Limited (JKPTCL).
General Administration Department of J&K Govt. recommended the case
along with their enquiry report to Crime Branch to lodge FIR against appointment
orders of Junior Engineers (JEs) in which the fraud was discovered.
During the course of investigation by Crime Branch, it was established that
these Govt. Order numbers actually pertains to compassionate appointments under
SRO-43 of 1994 dated 22.02.1994 in favour of members of the J&K State Advisory
Board. It was also established that the accused persons namely Pallav Gupta and
Sagar Kumar have managed false and fake appointment orders and cheated the
authorities in using them as genuine one. Thus commission of offences under
section 420,465,468,471 IPC against said accused persons were substantiated.
In this connection, a formal case FIR has been registered in Crime Branch
Jammu and investigation initiated.
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