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| Genius bank robbery case foiled | | HDFC official, others arrested for duping J&K Bank | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 24: In a genius bank robbery case, Srinagar Police claimed to have arrested an official of the private banker HDFC bank among others and busted a burglary racket which engaged in systematic duping of an account holder of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank.
Senior Superintend of Police Srinagar Syed Afadul Mujtaba said the Maisuma Police Station had received a complaint on November 15 from the Amira Kadal Branch of Jammu and Kashmir Bank that one Yasir Ahmad is trying to withdraw an amount of Rs, 40000/= (Forty Thousand) fraudulently from an account No. CD6397 of geo-Soft of J&K Bank Amira Kadal Branch Maisuma.
On this information a case FIR No. 77/2008 under section 468, 471,448, 420 RPC was stands registered in police station and investigation taken up. During the course of investigation police unearthed forgery scandal worth of Rs, 7 lakh which involved a bank employee of the HDFC Bank and his relative. The investigating officer SI Reyaz Ahmad of police station Maisuma under the supervision of SHO and SDPO concerned completed the investigation in a record time of 3 days.
The SSP said the J&K Bank Amira Kadal Branch informed the police station Maisuma about the forgery case involving alleged accused Yasir Ahmed of Almgari Bazar. Police swung in to action and laid a trap and arrested Yasir Ahmad.
On further investigation Yasir Ahmad who is an employee of the HDFC Bank confessed of being involved in the case and revealed that his relative Ghulam Ali Mir of Haft chinar was his accomplice in the said case. On interrogation, Yasir revealed that he got the cheque of B.R Traders at the counter of HDFC bank. He photocopied the cheque with out causing any doubt in the cheque holder mind later on, he forged signatures of the cheque holder and approached the J&K bank and got the balance sheet of the account holder i.e B. R Traders and subsequently he got the cheque book issued from the bank Branch Lasjan on forged signatures.
On the received the cheque book, he withdraw two cheque from the bank worth Rs, 1 Lakh (50,000/=) each. Presuming that it would be difficult to encash the money now, the accused devised another plan. They got the rate list of computer's and computer accessories from Geo-Soft Computers on pretext they would take goods from him. The owner of the Geo-Soft Computers provided them the said rate list. They transferred Rs. 4 Lakh to J&K bank branch Amira Kadal to the account of Geo-Soft, later they refused to purchase computer and computer accessories from the Geo-Soft and they told Geo-Soft Computers to return their money transfer. An amount of Rs. 2.80 Lakhs was withdrawn and handed over to accused by the Geo-Soft. Meanwhile the B.R Traders approached the bank with the cheque to withdraw money but he was surprised to see that the money had already been transferred to J&K bank branch Amira Kadal. On inquiry, bank stopped the payment and informed the police. Police laid the trap and apprehended the involved accused. With the arrested of these two offenders case FIR No. 82/2008 lodged with police station Batamaloo involving bank forgery of Rs. 2 Lacs. has also been solved. Police appreciates the role of bank official, and Geo-Soft in providing leads.
The SSP added that in another case, Police Station Nowgam received a complaint from one Bashir Ahmed Wani son of Sonaullah Wani owner of Wani Iron and Steel situated at Nowgam Chowk, that on the intervening night of 4/5.11.2008, some thieves have been broken in to his shop and stolen 30 quintals of Tata Shakti galvanized iron sheets.
On this FIR No. 32/2008 was registered and investigation was entrusted to ASI Mohd Akbar. During investigation it came into fore that an oraganized gang of burglars which used a TATA Mobil in the perpetuation of the crime was behind the theft. Four of the gang members namely Ab. Rashid Matta son of Mohd Sultan Matta resident of Parimpora, Manzoor Ahmad Sofi son of Ab. Rashid resident of Safakadal Srinagar, Ajaz Ahmed Sofi son of Ab. Rashid resident of Safakadal and Irfan Ahmed Bhat son of Ishtiaq Bhat resident of Khanyar were arrested following the confession of Manzoor Ahmed Sofi, which led to the recovery of 30 quintals of iron sheets from Manzoor Ahmad Sofi at his residence. The rest 3.5 quintals was already seized by police station Soura under section 550 CrPC. The vehicle used in transportation of stolen items was also seized. The modus operandi of the thieves was that, in the dead of the night they parked their vehicle next to the shop and manually lifted the tin sheets into the vehicle and dumped it at the residence of Manzoor. |
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