Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 30: Crime Branch has registered a case against the then SHO Ajay Singh in land dealing case.
This FIR has been registered on the basis of a complaint filed by Vinod Rishi, brother of famous film star Mukesh Rishi. The complainant had entered into an agreement to sell on 20.01.2014 whereby Ajit Singh, Joginder Singh and Harmeet Singh, sons of Baldev Sigh, residents of Sehora agreed to sell 6 kanals of land in Khasra No 106 situated at Sehora in Jammu district.
This deal was settled through Surjeet Singh, property dealer and a sum of Rs 25 lakh was paid to the vendors/land owners under proper receipt. It was further alleged that when the complainant approached Surjeet Singh for execution of the sale deed in respect of the land, Surjeet Singh demanded an amount of Rs 5 lakh as enhancement of the sale consideration.
Under compulsion the complainant agreed to this and thereafter he was taken to the Police Station Vijaypur where SHO Ajay Singh further compelled the complainant to pay a total amount of Rs 90 lakh under the assurance and guarantee that if any problem arises double the amount shall be paid to him by Surjeet Singh.
Ajay Singh also wrote a receipt in his own handwriting and official seal acknowledging the receipt of Rs 90 lakh by Surjeet Singh. But when the complainant asked Surjeet Singh to get the fard of the land from the Patwari in the capacity of the attorney holder, Surjeet Singh in connivance with the Patwari Halqa Sehora got two fards of some different lands situated in Khasra No 133 min issued instead of land falling under Khasra No 106 by mentioning different names of the vendors.
It was further alleged that both SHO Ajay Singh and Surjeet Singh, in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy cheated and duped the complainant of his hard earned money.
During the course of verification, Crime Branch found that accused Surjeet Singh had obtained a huge amount of Rs 90 lakh from the complainant under the receipt prepared and issued by SHO Ajay Singh under his official seal for the sale of land falling under Khasra No 106 but thereafter entered into an agreement on 2.9.2014 purportedly with the complainant through one Parvez Ahmed Choudhary thereby closing the deal due to defect in the title of the land.
However, on further verification it was found that the agreement dated 2.9.2014 was fake and fabricated and fraudulently prepared by Surjeet Singh by affixing the photographs deceitfully and appending the fictitious signatures of the parties. It also came to fore that accused Surjeet Singh in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy with accused SHO Ajay Singh lured the complainant by executing a false agreement with a dishonest intention and received a huge amount of Rs 90 lakh from him as sale consideration of land situated in Khasra No. 106 but thereafter got the fards of different land issued clandestinely and also prepared a fake and fabricated agreement nullifying the entire deal.
It was also revealed that SHO Ajay Singh being a public servant intervened and got the deal finalized in his office solely in order to cause wrongful gains to himself and his associates and wrongful loss to the complainant.
After verification, Crime Branch registered a case under Section 420, 467, 468, 471 RPC read with 5(2) Prevention of Corruption Act against the then SHO Vijaypur Ajay Singh and Surjeet Singh.
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