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| Police solves J&K bank cheque forgery, arrests three | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Jan 5: Police claimed to have solved the bank cheque forgery case with the arrest of three persons involved in the said case.
As per police sources, on Dec 30, one Davinder Sharma s/o Jagdish Chander r/o Hiranagar Kathua lodged a written report with Police Police Post Narwal Jammu against Sunil Kumar s/o Bodh Raj r/o Gurha Bakhshi Nagar Jammu and others for cheating, fraud and forging his cheque from J & K Bank fruit Mandi Narwal Jammu.
In his complaint he alleged that he had deposited a cheque in the name of Darson & Company amounting Rs. 24,500/- on 8th of November 2012. Later on he came to know through SMS service that an amount of Rs. 1, 24,500/- has been withdrawn from his account. On his confirmation about the money withdrawn fraudulently, he lodged a report with Police Post Narwal Jammu and a case FIR No. 241/2012 U/S 420/409/467/468/471/120-B/RPC was registered at P/S Trikuta Nagar Jammu.
A special team was constituted by SP City South Rajeshwar Singh which was headed by SDPO City East Jammu S S Sambyal, SHO Trikuta Nagar Sameer Jillani, In-charge Police Post Narwal Hilal Azhar.
During investigation, the Police team succeeded in arresting the main kingpin Sunil Kumar @ Bittu S/O Bodh Raj r/o Gurha Bakhshi Nagar Jammu A/P Durga Nagar Bantalab Jammu & associates namely Sandeep Sharma @ Billa s/o Ramesh Sharma r/o 42/F Rehari Colony Jammu, Ajay Sodhi @ Baba s/o Sham Lal r/o 35 Gali No. 3 Jawahar Nagar New Plot Jammu.
The police team found that the accused has constituted a gang which was indulging in stealing cheques of the customers from different banks and by forging the stolen cheques, they used to deposit it in their temporary accounts for commission of the said crime in different banks.
During sustained questioning accused Sunil Kumar @ Bittu disclosed that the cheque of complainant for Rs. 24,500/- was also stolen by him with the association of Sandeep Sharma @ Billa, Ajay Sodhi @ Baba and Deepak Thakur s/o Dharampaul of Subash Nagar Jammu (Gang members) and after omitting the Darson & Company, they forge the cheque in the name of accused Sunil Kumar (Kingpin) by inserting Rs One Lakh more making one lakh twenty four thousand and five hundred 1, 24,500/- the forged cheque was later on deposited and withdrawn by accused Sunil Kumar and associates from J&K Bank GMC Jammu.
During further investigation, the investigation team also collected and seized the video footage while stealing the cheque from J&K bank fruit Mandi Narwal by the accused persons.
During questioning the accused persons confessed their similar kind of involvement of stealing and forging the cheques of customers from different banks and withdrawing the amount fraudulently. It was also revealed that this gang has already been involved in number of criminal cases of different crimes inside and outside the state. One of the associate of the gang namely Deepak Thakur S/O Dharampaul R/O Subash Nagar Jammu is absconding. With the timely action of Police, the notorious gang was busted and public interest crime was detected. |
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