Jammu: Fraudster held for duping people of crores
Jammu, Jun 11 (UNI): The sleuths of Crime Branch on Tuesday arrested a fraudster for duping crores of rupees in Mendhar area of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir.
Superintendent of police, Crime Branch Jammu, Mushtaq Ahmed said that on May 5, a complaint was lodged at Mendhar police station by one Abdul Karim of Pathanteer, Mendhar and others alleging that accused persons namely Tariq Mehmood of village Chhugan Tehsil Mendhar, Murtaza Ahmed of Chak Banok, tehsil Mendhar and Imtiaz Ahmed of village Chhugan, Mendhar and others duped crores of rupees from the inhabitants of Mendhar and its surrounding areas on the pretext of providing different products with huge interest.
He said that a case was registered acting on a complaint and the investigation was taken up and accordingly a Special Investigating Team comprising inspector Mashkoor Giri, inspector Urfan Wani, sub-inspector Hilal Azhar and assistant sub-inspector Mohammad Sayeed headed by Bhushan Kumar Ganjoo, deputy superintendent of police, Crime Branch, Jammu was constituted who swung into action and arrested main accused Tariq Mehmood.
The accused was interrogated to ascertain the modus operandi of crime and other aspects related to the case and Tariq revealed that he is a pharmacist and presently posted at the health sub centre, Bathoi, Mahore district, who has reportedly been suspended by the authorities.
“Tariq disclosed that he along with his other co-accused opened a company under the name of Style of “Hablas-e-Commerce Pvt. Ltd.” located at Mendhar in the month of February, 2018 and collected money from different individuals on the pretext of providing them various products with huge interest of principle amount etc,” official added.
SP Mushtaq Ahmed said that in this process he collected huge amounts from different individuals in crores.
The accused admitted that he has committed a mistake and during interrogation he also disclosed that out of money collected from the different individuals he has purchased a house for an amount of Rs 1.20 crore and has also paid different amounts to people on 10 per cent interest etc besides he has kept about Rs 1 Crore with his father in law and an equal amount each with his other co-accused persons.
The said accused has presently been lodged in district jail Amphala on judicial remand, said the SP.
During investigation he revealed the names of his co-accused persons and they all were arrested while the investigation of the case is on progress, he added.
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