Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 1: Police today arrested three persons including a ‘cricketer’ impersonating as Sub-Inspector and recovered fake stamps and letter pads of Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association and president National Cricket Academy, Bangluru.
Police spokesman said that on May 30, 2013, Mohd Aslam Goni, Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) lodged a written complaint with the Incharge Police Post Bathindi mentioning that a person namely Manoj Kumar, son of Rattan Chand of Harsath Ghagwal approached his office with the forged letter of JKCA and receipt for an amount of Rs 4650.
The complainant further stated that the letter was written on the fictitious letter head of the JKCA with bogus stamp of Chairman of JKCA and the contents of the letter were absolutely not known to him nor any such letter was issued by the complainant. Similarly, a receipt vide which an amount of Rs 4650 was charged from Mukesh Kumar, son of Manoj Kumar was also bearing a bogus stamp of Chairman of JKCA.
On enquiry by the complainant Manoj Kumar told him that letter and receipt were given to him by one R S Bali, who claimed to be serving as Sub-Inspector in the JKP.
Acting on the complaint, police registered a case under Section 420/467/468/471 RPC at Police Station Trikuta Nagar and investigation was entrusted to Incharge Police Post Bathindi SI Mohd Iqbal Chagatta. SDPO East, S S Sambyal was directed by the SSP Jammu, Rajeshwar Singh to closely monitor the investigation of the case.
Yesterday, a police team headed by SI Mohd Iqbal Chagatta under the supervision of SDPO East apprehended one Mohinder Pal Singh Bali, son of Bhupinder Singh of Tral district Baramulla from Guru Teg Bahadur Nagar, Malik Market, who confessed his guilt.
During questioning, Mohinder Pal Singh revealed that he is a good player of cricket and also played many local cricket tournaments but being unemployed he has no source of income. On his disclosure, fake letter pads of JKCA and Bali Cricket Club, one receipt book and three stamps of Chairman JKCA, Sandeep Patil, President NCA Bangluru and president SSD Manoj Sharma each were recovered from his rented room.
During the course of investigation, two more persons namely Ajay Kumar, son of Thakur Dass of Ratnu Chak and Rakesh Sharma, son of Bansi Lal of Sarwal, who prepared fake letter pads and stamps respectively were also arrested.
“The investigation is at preliminary stage and more arrests cannot be ruled out”, police spokesman said.
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