Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 7: An alleged swindler has been booked by the crime branch of J&K police for duping a widow of Rs 44 lakh.
Babita Jain, a widow of SIDCO Industrial Complex, Bari Brahmana, had moved the court of first additional munsiff, forest magistrate, against one Atul Chibber, son of Madan Lal Chibber of Channi Himmat, for allegedly swindling her money.
The court had forwarded her complaint to the CB. In her complaint, Babita said her Vinod Kumar Jain, who was running a unit of manufacturing of cotton seed cakes at Mehtpur, Himachal Pradesh, and SIDCO Industrial Complex, Bari Brahmana, was murdered on February 14, 2013 over a property dispute. Thereafter, Atul, who had relatives in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, residing near her parental house, approached her and convinced her that he could help her in running their industrial units. Imposing trust in him, she allowed him to look after her business.
She alleged that Atul also assured her to help the family in contesting her husband's murder case and after some time, he took from her an amount of Rs 44 lakh through bank transactions and cash on the pretext of arranging raw material supplies for her cotton seed units and some other investments and in this regard also provided an agreement and hundies but after taking such a huge amount, he neither provided the raw material nor returned her money. Though she made him repeated requests to return the money, he refused and threatened her of dire consequences, she alleged.
During preliminary inquiry, CB found that Atul had duped the woman of Rs 44 lakh. Rs. 8 lakh were paid through cheques which were credited in his bank account maintained in IDBI Bank, Bahu Plaza, while Rs 36 lakh were paid in cash.
Accordingly, CB booked him under sections 420, 406, 465, 466, 467, 468 and 506 of RPC. |
