Challan produced against 14 including officials of Relief Org, JK Bank

JAMMU: Crime Branch, Jammu today produced challan against fourteen persons (out of which three have died) including officials of Relief Organisation, J&K Bank and some private persons for allegedly hatching a criminal conspiracy with the intention to cause Rs 51,85,000 loss to the state exchequer.
Spokesperson of Crime Branch Jammu said following written complaint from Rattan Singh Charak s/o Mangu Charak, r/o Channi Himmat, Jammu alleging therein that one Vijay Kumar s/o Dhuni Chand, in connivance with Kashmiri Lal Pandit, relief officer prepared about two thousand fraudulent Ration cards of Kashmiri pandits and sikh migrants and the amount of the relief is deposited in account numbers 2392 and 2464 of J&K Bank Branch Fruit Mandi Complex Jammu and A/c number 5500 of J&K Bank Branch Ware House Jammu and the amount so deposited is distributed among themselves and Yashpal Khajuria fraudulently."A Case under FIR number 20/1993 u/s 420, 467, 468, 471,120-B RPC, r/w 5(2) PC Act P/S Crime Branch, Jammu was registered and during the course of investigation, relevant records were seized from Relief office Zone number 12 Channi Himmat, Jammu and also some cheques, ledger sheets etc were seized from J&K Bank branch Fruit Mandi complex Jammu and Nehru market Jammu."
He said, "Later on the investigation of the case was transferred to Vigilance Organization Jammu in the year 1994 which remained under investigation till year 2002 with Vigilance Organization Jammu and investigation of the case was again transferred to Crime Branch Jammu for further investigation." Investigation conducted reveals that Relief zone 12 Channi Himmat Jammu issued Relief cheques in favour of different Kashmiri migrants through cheques most of which were account payee cheques. The bank authorities and other beneficiaries hatched a criminal conspiracy with the intention to cause huge loss to the state exchequer in connivance with the J&K Bank officials.
"A total of Rs 51,85,000 payable to different beneficiaries withdrew the credited amounts with criminal intention/conspiracy and distributed the amount amongst themselves.
SSP Crime Branch Jammu Mubassir Latifi briefly said that this was one of the oldest case under investigation with Crime Branch Jammu. "The offences u/s 420, 467, 468, 471,120-B RPC, r/w 5(2) PC Act were established against 14 accused persons including officials from Relief Organization, J&K and some other beneficiaries and chargesheet was presented in the Court of Ld. Special Judge Anti Corruption Jammu.