Key Takeaways
- The CJM Bandipora court received a chargesheet from CBK’s Economic Offence Wing.
- Abdul Razak Wani and Ghulam Ahmad Shah are accused of embezzling public funds.
- Offences include fraud under Sections 420, 468, 471, 409, 120-B & 201 RPC.
Srinagar: Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of Crime Branch Kashmir (CBK) has filed a chargesheet against two bank officials in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Bandipora in an embezzlement case, officials said.
CBK’s Economic Offences Wing Srinagar in a statement said that the charge report in the case (FIR No. 23 of 2016) was filed before the Court of CJM Bandipora against Abdul Razak Wani (the then Branch Manager, Baramulla Central Co-operative Bank (BCCB) Ltd Branch Hajin) and Ghulam Ahmad Shah (the then clerk, BCCB Branch Hajin) for their alleged involvement in commission of offences punishable under Sections 420, 468, 471, 409, 120-B & 201 RPC of police station CBK now EOW, Srinagar.
It said that a communication was received from the Registrar of Co-operative Societies, J&K wherein it was alleged that some officers and officials of the BCCB Ltd. have dishonestly and fraudulently misappropriated and embezzled large sums of public money in different branches of the Bank etc. Accordingly, it said, the case was registered in 2016 and the investigation started.
“During investigation it came to fore that Abdul Razak Wani had entered into a criminal conspiracy with his clerk Ghulam Ahmad Shah as a result of which employees of the bank had cheated the depositors, forged the financial documents and records and misappropriated and embezzled large sums of public money running into lakhs of Rupees.”
Evidence collected, it said, during the investigation has “established” criminal culpability and proved that offences punishable u/Ss 420, 468, 471, 409, 120-B & 201 RPC by the duo.
“Accordingly, a charge-report (challan) of the instant Case has been presented in the Court for judicial determination.”
