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Jammu, Nov 30
Central Bureau of Investigation New-Delhi during the investigation of RCAC2-2002-A004 registered in anticorruption unit II New-Delhi on May 21, 2002 against M/S BK Vaishnavi and KK Gupta of Oriental Insurance Company New-Delhi and Brij Lal Raina (Sathoo) and Subhash Saraf (private persons) u/s 120-B r/w 420/511, 419, 467, 468, 471 IPC and section 13 (2) r/w 13(1) (d) of PC Act 1988 today registered a case against the senior officials of the OIC allegedly involved in the scam running into lakhs of rupees.
It was alleged that the accused persons had initially obtained a fire insurance policy during September/October 1999 in sum of Rs 42 lakh from Oriental Insurance Company Ltd New-Deli in respect of a residential building in Batapura Shopian (J&K) purportedly owned by Brij Lal Raina s/o Lt Tara Chand Raina. It was further alleged that on June 26, 2000, a false insurance complaint was lodged in the name of Brij Lal Raina to the effect of the said building having been gutted in fire, in respect of which FIR No 13/2000 was lodged at P/S Shopian. It was alleged that no person with the identity Brij Lal Raina (Sathoo) s/o Lt Tara Chand Raina ever existed in the said village nor did any such property exist, but not withstanding the above the said insurance claim was processed and necessary survey was got conducted through Subhash Saraf and Parveen Aggarwal, the two surveyors and that it was reported that the said loss was to the extend of Rs 31, 49, 795/-.
During the course of investigation of the said case it was revealed that prior to the above claim, a similar fire insurance claim in the sum of Rs 8, 51, 692/- had already been obtained fraudulently in respect of a property purportedly owned by Brij Lal Raina s/o Tara Chand Raina in Nai-Basti Anantnag (J&K). It was further gathered that Subhash Saraf of M/S Saraf Investigators Private Ltd Jammu was actively involved in this criminal conspiracy along with others. It was also gathered that two other false insurance claims had been got paid from Oriental Insurance Company Ltd Jammu/Srinagar in respect of properties purportedly owned by Tej Kishen Raina in Anantnag, Kashmir. The above fraudulent insurance claims were obtained consequent to a criminal conspiracy hatched and executed by certain officials of Oriental Insurance Company Ltd Jammu-Srinagar along with Subhash Saraf of M/S Saraf Investigators.
Vigilance Officer of Oriental Insurance Company Ltd Ambala (presently posted at Jammu), Varinder Kumar conducted enquiry in respect of a fire claim pertaining to the property owned by Brij Lal Raina at Anantnag. In his report he said that two similar false claim in the sum of Rs 13, 36, 260/- and Rs 6, 98, 598/-were obtained in the name of TK Raina s/o Gopi Nath r/o Qazi Mohalla, Anantnag. These claims were finalized and obtained from OIC Ltd on the basis of survey reports submitted by Subhash Saraf. Investigation further revealed that claims fraudulently obtained in the name of Brij Lal Raina and TK Raina had been deposited in certain bank accounts in citizen’s cooperative bank Ltd Channi Himmat Jammu. Mr. Ajay Sharma who signed as introducer for opening bank account in the name of Brij Lal Raina in his statement stated that neither he knows the said person nor ever saw him. He has signed as introducer at the request of Subhash Saraf who was known to him. It was further revealed that no such FIR was actually registered and that particular FIR, which was registered in respect of some other offence and attested copy of FIR was also obtained. The statement of Javid Hussain Sofi surveyor polo-view Srinagar was also recorded in which he stated that Mr. Amar Nath and MK Jutshi, the then Divisional Manager and Manager OIC Ltd Srinagar had pressurized him and obtained from him a false report conforming the loss of property at Nai-Basti Anantnag in the name of Brij Lal Raina, which the survey report was initially submitted by Subhash Saraf. After investigation of the cases Arun Sharma SP CBI, New-Delhi has refereed the cases to J&K Branch as matter relates to the jurisdiction of Jammu Branch.
The CBI/ACB Jammu on the basis of this investigation has registered a case against Ashok Bhagat the then Divisional Manager, RL Bhagat the then Assistant Divisional Manager, Tara Chand the then AAO, MK Jutshi then Assistant Divisional Manager, all of Oriental Insurance Company Ltd, Subhash Saraf of M/S Saraf Investigtors Pvt Ltd Exhibition Ground Jammu, Mr. Chunni Lal Raina Advocate r/o Manorama Vihar, Bhori Chungi, Talab Tillo (private persons) u/s 120-Br/w 419/\420/467/468/471/477-A RPC and 5(2) r/w 5(1) (d) of JK PC Act 2006.
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