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| Court rejects bail in fake SIM case | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Apr 11: Principal Sessions Judge Srinagar Jawad Ahmed rejected the pre-arrest bail application of one Feroz Ahmad Bhat S/o Mohammad Shafi Bhat R/o Rainawari Srinagar at present Zakura Srinagar who was involved in supplying fake SIM.
CIK Kashmir said that on 12-1-2021 Police Station CIK received a letter dated 1-1-2021 from Dy SP CIK stating therein that during verification of CAF of SIM cards bearing Sell Nos. 6006705263, 6006781209, 6006796218, 7051370363 and 6006784596, the subscribers of these cell numbers could not be traced on the given addresses rather they had not applied for the said SIM cards. These SIM numbers seem to be issued and used fraudulently.
CIK lodged FIR No.01/2021 for offences under section 420, 468, 471 IPC and started investigation in the matter. During investigation these 5 SIMs were seized. The statement of one witness was recorded, whereby it revealed that the accused had issued one SIM card No. 6006796218 to one customer namely Mohamad Israil R/o Pursoli Gawoon Bihar on his identity card.
It revealed that by deceitful means the accused had given this SIM card to Israil on the identity card of one Mohamad Ashraf Khan R/o Machil Kupwara and had sold the SIM to said Israil at exorbitant rate. Accused, without the knowledge of Ashraf, tampered with his identity card and on this fake Identity card issued the SIM to Israil and thereby also cheated the JIO company. Police CIK found that offences u/s 420, 468, 471 IPC are made out against the accused. He has got the interim bail but despite repeated requests he did not come forward to cooperate with the investigating agency.
Principal Sessions Judge Srinagar after hearing both the sides observed that it reveals from the police report that the accused has sold the SIM cards of JIO company to a person who is resident of Bihar by manipulating his false identity card by tampering with the Identity card of Ashraf of Kupwara and used it as the identity card of Israil. This is a serious criminal act on the part of accused and seems an organized crime. This may not be a single criminal act but, the accused may have sold many such SIM cards to many other persons by manipulating fake identity cards, which is a serious offence as it also relates to the security of the state.
The court observed that his custodial interrogation is necessary in this case and does not deserve the protection of interim bail and rejected the bail application and ordered that the interim pre-arrest bail order dated 26-2-2022 is withdrawn forthwith. CD is returned to the PP in the open court. |
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