Srinagar- Two policewomen, involved in swindling Rs 1.88 crore from their colleagues, were chargesheeted before a court in Jammu on Friday for judicial determination
The Economic Offences Wing – Crime Branch, Jammu produced 382 page charge-sheet against selection grade Constables Nirmal Kour Saini of IRP 15th battalion and Arti Sharma of 4th Security PID, before the Court of law for judicial determination for hatching criminal conspiracy and cheating the complainant along with other co-employees of IRP 15th battalion of Rs 1, 87, 64,000.00 after luring them on the pretext of hefty returns for investing money and gold with them.
The chargesheet was produced in the case 23/2014 U/S 420, 406, 120-B RPC registered at the police station EOW, Jammu in 2014.
The case surfaced when the Crime Branch, now EOW, received an enquiry report from the Commandant of IRP 15th battalion through IGP Armed/IRP, Jammu Zone, revealing that written complaints have been filed by women constables of IRP 15th battalion alleging that Nirmal Kour had taken an amount of Rs. 1.00 lakh each from them fraudulently on the pretext that she would repay an interest of Rs. 5000 per month on the invested money, a police spokesperson said.
However, the accused, he said, neither paid interest nor the principal amount to the complainants and cheated them and misappropriated their money.
He said that a discreet enquiry conducted by Commandant IRP 15th battalion found that Nirmal Kour in connivance with her husband Mainer Singh Saini presently posted in JKAP 14th battalion had collected a huge amount of cash and gold not only from the complainants but from other women officials of the 15th battalion and security wing too after luring them with high rate of interest besides arranging gold loan facilities.
“But the accused had deposited the cash with some finance company and gold with Manappuraam Bank- Satwari, Karan Market Jammu for their personal use, thereby cheated and duped the fellow officials and misappropriated the collected amount to the tune of Rs. 1.50 crores and gold about 300 grams approx,” the spokesperson said.
On receipt of the enquiry report, he said, a formal case was registered in Crime Branch Jammu under the relevant sections of law. He said during the course of investigation, it was also found that the accused also started business of electronic gadgets and furniture items at Battalion headquarters against monetary benefits to win over the confidence of innocent investors.
“During the course of investigation all material evidence in the form of documentary record was collected from concerned quarters besides statements of complainants & witnesses were recorded and the offences U/S 420, 404, 120-B RPC P/S Crime Branch, Jammu were established against both the accused for cheating and duping the complainants and other co-employees of the Battalion of their hard earned money,” the spokesperson said.
He said a preliminary charge-sheet has been produced against Nirmal Kour Saini and Arti Sharma & further investigation continues into the said case FIR.
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