Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Sept 29: The Crime Branch Kashmir today said to have produced a charge sheet against an accused of duping Hajj aspirants in the Pattan area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla.
The man had duped the aspirants by providing them with fake and invalid passports and grabbing their money.
CB said that the charge sheet was produced in the case FIR No. 17 of 2018 undersigned 420 RPC of police station crime branch Kashmir, in the court of Sub-Judge Pattan against Hamidullah Mir of Pattan Baramulla for duping the Hajj aspirants.
“Crime Branch Kashmir received a complaint from one Gh Rasool Khanday of Pattan Bala, stating therein that he and his wife intended to undertake Hajj Pilgrimage and for that purpose, he contacted Hamidullah Mir Newran Pattan prop of M/S Kaba Tour and Travels and paid him an amount of Rs 3.80 lacs for arranging visa/ air tickets and accommodation at Harmain Sharief (KSA) and other related facilities for them,” CB said.
It said that the accused provided them with a visa for proceeding to Saudi Arabia for Hajj Pilgrimage and accordingly they proceeded for Pilgrimage on 16.9.2016 but were stopped at Delhi airport and were not allowed to proceed ahead on the ground that their visas are invalid and are not meant for Hajj/Umrah.
“These passports/visas were verified/ confirmed which turned to be fake and false. On this count, a case with FIR No: 17/2018 U/s 420 RPC was registered in PS crime branch Kashmir and investigation was set into motion.”
The CB said that the allegations were established in the course of the investigation against the accused and it was also established that the accused had duped other Hajj aspirants hailing from the Pattan area.
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