JAMMU, Aug 31: The Economic Offences Wing of the Crime Branch Jammu (CBJ) has filed charges against five people, including one who pretended to be an Army Colonel, for allegedly arranging a job fraud of Rs 67 lakh.
Kulbinder Singh @ Vicky (impersonator), his brother Sunil Singh, and wife Bindiya Bhau, all residents of Village Deharan, Tehsil Bhalwal, District Jammu, and Vishal Bhagat of Lale-Da-Bagh, Lower Barnai, Jammu, and Prem Paul of Haria Chak, Tehsil Marheen, District Kathua, were charge-sheeted in case FIR number 28/2019 under sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 170, 171, 120-B of the RPC registered at Police Station Crime Branch Jammu, said a CBJ spokesperson.He said that one Mohinder Kumar of Shama Chak, Jhiri, Jammu filed a complaint, leading to the arrest of the defendants.
According to the Crime Branch spokesperson, who cited the complainant’s complaint, the accused Kulbinder Singh, who was expelled from the Indian Army, amassed Rs 67 lakh from impressionable youth by promising them jobs in the Indian Army and Military Engineering Services (MES) and posing as an Army Colonel.
He claimed that after accepting a significant amount of money from the young people in lieu of work, “he even issued fake appointment orders in their favour.”He claimed that the accusations against the accused were prima-facie established in the PV and as a result, a formal case was registered for an in-depth investigation after beginning a preliminary verification and obtaining the prior approval of the Crime Headquarters Jammu and Kashmir to conduct investigation into the matter.
Then, he claimed, the pertinent records, including Rs. 50,000, were confiscated, and the witness statements were recorded in accordance with Sections 161 and 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code.According to the CBJ spokesperson, scientific, circumstantial, and other material evidence was also gathered, and the offences against the primary accused Kulbinder Singh for luring and deceiving the innocent youth under the pretence of offering them jobs in MES and the Indian Army were afterwards proven.
He claimed that a charge-sheet against the accused for defrauding the impressionable youngsters of their hard-earned money had finally been issued in court based on the evidence gathered.
