Crime branch registers case against Delhi based company

JAMMU : The crime branch of police today registered a criminal case against a Delhi-based company for preparing and furnishing a forged bank guarantee bond of Jammu and Kashmir bank for an amount of Rs one crore.

“The branch manager of JK bank RS Pura branch lodged a complaint alleging that a bank guarantee bond for an amount of Rs One crore has been fraudulently issued in the name of and on behalf of JK Bank and Moglie Scelta Elettro Limited in favor of Shivam Enterprises, New Delhi as the beneficiary,” a crime branch spokesman said.

He said that the bank denied to have issued any such bank guarantee bond.

He said that the stamp papers used for preparing the fake bank guarantee bond were purchased in the name of Vishal Mahajan, a resident of Gandhi Nagar, Jammu and that officials of Moglie Scelta Elettro Limited.

“Moglie Scelta Elettro Limited not only manufactured and used the forged bank guarantee bond but had also forged the signatures and seal of the bank officials, intentionally in order to cheat the bank and the beneficiary,” he said.

A criminal case has been registered against Moglie Scelta Elettro Limited and Vishal Mahajan for fraud and forgery. (AGENCIES)