Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 16: Crime Branch Jammu has booked Managing Director of Beigh Construction Company Pvt Ltd and others for fraud by cheating and forgery to procure contract for tunnel work from IRCON.
A criminal case under relevant sections of law has been registered against Imran Beigh, son of Ashraf Beigh of Bathandi (Managing Director, Beigh Construction Company Pvt Ltd); Mohit Singh of Mathura, UP (Accountant Manager BCC); Tarun Khanna (CA) of Trikuta Nagar, Jammu, Rahul Sharma (CA Auditor) of New Delhi and others for their involvement in hatching criminal conspiracy in forging balance sheets of (Joint venture) JV AIMBPL-BCC of the year 2013-14, 2014-15 and balance sheet of BCC for the year 2015-16. After forgery, they submitted the balance sheets to IRCON Pvt Ltd for participation in bids for procuring contract of T-74R and T-77D Tunnels and succeeded in procuring the contract of T-77D from IRCON to execute the works.
The suspect also duped the complainant (Lalit Agarwal, Managing Director – Amritanshu Infrastructure and Management Pvt Ltd.) of more than Rs 9 crores by fraudulent means besides illegally keeping all machinery, equipment, plants, stores of JV(joint venture) worth crore in which the complainant is 51 percent share holder, therefore, causing wrongful gain to himself and corresponding loss to the complainant.
A written complaint was received in Crime Brach Jammu, wherein complainant – Lalit Agarwal alleged that Imran Beigh, MD Beigh Construction Company Pvt Ltd (BCC), Chirag Colony Bathandi Morh Jammu and others had committed fraud, forgery and cheating with him. As per the complainant the accused did not adhere to the JV agreement between them and did not pay his share of 49 percent and instead withdrew excess amount to the tune of Rs 1,04,93,716. 93 on account of payment of Bank Loan and machinery purchased by him.
On receipt of the complaint, Crime Branch initiated a preliminary verification into the matter and during the course of enquiry, the offence committed by the suspects was prima-facie established. The omissions and commissions, on the part of the suspects and others prima facie constitute offences punishable U/S 420, 465, 467, 468, 471 RPC 66 IT Act 2000. Accordingly, a criminal case has been registered against them in P/S Crime Branch, Jammu for in-depth probe. The investigation of the case has been set in motion.