Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 9: Crime Branch, Jammu succeeded in arresting a fraudster involved in a scandal of Rs 10, 57,000.
The fraudster is involved in a case FIR No 08/2017 under Sections 419, 420, 406/RPC registered at police station Crime Branch, Jammu. A team of Crime Branch, Jammu arrested the accused Showkat Ahmad Lone alias Dr Faizan Shah alias Basit Shah son of Mohd Ramzan Lone, resident of Batwina, tehsil Lar, district Ganderbal from Mangaluru, Karnataka.
The accused had impersonated as Dr Faizan Shah and duped the complainant after inducing him that he (accused) enjoyed close relations in the high corridors of power and hence can arrange Government jobs for their kin and accordingly he took an amount of Rs 10, 57,000 for this purpose from the complainant.
The allegations against the accused were prima facie substantiated during the preliminary enquiry and the instant case was registered. During investigation, the involvement of the accused in the case was made out but the accused went underground.
The accused kept on changing his names as well as hideouts. Finally, he was arrested from Mangaluru, Karnataka and further investigation of the case is going on.
Besides this, the accused has also impersonated as Director (WHO) World Health Organization and a separate case FIR No No 56/2019 has been lodged in this regard against the accused in police station Barkhe, Mangaluru, Karnataka.
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