Srinagar, Apr 8: Crime Branch of Kashmir on Thursday produced chargesheet against six persons alleged of forging signatures of different issuing authorities’.

Identifying the accused persons as; Mymoona wife of Javid Ahmad Shah resident of Shalteng A/P Posted as clerk in SMC, Ghulam Mohidin Dar son of Abdul Rahim resident of Urpash Ganderbal, Mohammad Amin Shora son of Ali Mohammad Shora resident of Darish Kadal Safakadal Srinagar, Bashir Ahmad Najar son of Ali Mohammad Najar resident of Shalteng Pathpora Srinagar, Mohammad Shafi Batloo son of Ghulam Mohammad Batloo resident of Zaldagar Srinagar and Ghulam Nabi Wani son of Ali Mohammad Wani resident of Shaheed Gunj Srinagar, the official said that the charge sheet in case FIR number 55/2016 U/S 420, 468, 471, 120-B RPC against them was produced before the Court of Forest Magistrate Srinagar.

The Crime Branch Kashmir, according to the official, had received a written communication, which inter alia revealed that Divisional Planner SMC Srinagar had detected four building permission cases (fast track), wherein the signatures of issuing authority have been forged.

“It is further alleged that the Health Officer SMC has noticed that the date of birth certificates are fake following which a preliminary verification was initiated at Crime Branch Kashmir”, the official said.

‘During the course of investigation, it surfaced that the building permissions and DOB certificates have been issued fraudulently after resorting to forgery.’

“These acts of omission and commission on the part of the accused persons, prima facie discloses commission of offences Punishable U/S 420, 468, 471, 120-B RPC and accordingly the instant case FIR No.55/2016 was registered”, the official said.

“The Court has sent all the six accused persons to judicial custody, who have been lodged in Central Jail Srinagar”, the official added.

This post was published on April 8, 2021