Crime Branch Filed Supplementary Chargesheet Against 07 Accused Including A Bank Manager In 5 Crore J&k Bank Loan Scam
Jammu May 17 : Crime Branch has filed supplementary chargesheet against seven accused including the then Bank Manager (now demoted) in five crores JK Bank loan scam.
The accused against whom chargesheet have been filed are : the then J&K Bank Manager (Scale-II) branch Rajouri Jatinder Singh ( now demoted ) S/o Dharampal Sharma R/o Narwal Bala Jammu, fake J.E. Waqar Ahmed S/O Abdul Ghani R/O Chandak Dingla Poonch, fake J.E (RDD) Zaheer Ahmed S/O Mohd Munshi R/O Ari Mendhar Poonch, fake Horticulture Technician-II in Water Shed RDD Poonch, Zafar Iqbal S/o Mohd Younis R/o Ari Mendhar Poonch and fake Horticulture Technician-I in IWMP RDD Poonch, Mohd Shakeel S/o Said Mohd R/o Nowshera Rajouri, fake Horticulture Technician- II Mohd. Shafiq S/O Mohd Munshi R/o Ari Mendhar Poonch, contractual employee of IWMP (now terminated) Saleem Yousuf Bhatti S/o Mohd. Yousaf Bhatti R/o Narol, Mendher, Tehsil Poonch.
Of the seven accused, two main conspirators namely demoted JK Bank Manager Jatinder Singh and Saleem Yousuf Bhatti are still in jail, whereas the other five accused had been bailed out. Earlier, Crime Branch had filed preliminary chargesheet in the same case against four accused namely Mohd. Altaf S/o Said Mohd. R/o Ari Mendhar, Ruksana Tabassum W/o Mohd Altaf R/o Ari Mendhar,Zahida Parveen D/o Mohd. Ikhlaq R/o Ari Mendhar and Saleem Yousuf Bhatti.
This case was registered on the written complaint lodged by Chief Manager S&C Division, Zonal office J&K Bank Jammu Mohd Shakeel wherein he alleged that Saleem Yousuf Bhatti who was contractual employee with IWMP Poonch and others had got activated the inactive accounts of Water Shed Committee at Branch Lassana, Surankote Poonch. The accused got the nomenclature of the accounts changed, issued fake salary certificates & confirmation letters to different non-existing employees and managed together personal loans, cash credit loans and car loans etc. by posing themselves as government employees. Accused also managed to open fraudulent government accounts at Branch office Mendhar and Branch office Bus stand Mendhar. They firstly deposited money through different banks/branches in the A/Cs of Water Shed Committee and the fake accounts opened by them, issued fake authority letters instructing the branches to disburse/credit the salary in individual accounts of the accused. Thus the accused managed to fraudulently obtain loans amounting to Rs 5.00 Crore approximately from the different branches of J&K Bank thereby causing huge wrongful loss to the bank. Sr. Superintendent of Police Crime Jammu Benam Tosh said that supplementary chargesheet in case FIR No. 86/2023 has been filed by the special investigation team (SIT) of Crime Branch (EOW) Jammu in the Ld. court of Special Judge Anti Corruption Rajouri & Poonch Districts (at Rajouri) for judicial determination.
