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JAMMU: Crime Branch Jammu has registered a criminal case under relevant provisions of law against one Bashir Ahmed, son of Shah Mohd and his wife Meena, both residents of Narwal Pain, Satwari for cheating the complainant. As per an official spokesperson of the investigating agency, Bashir Ahmed and his wife Meena hatched a criminal conspiracy and cheated complainant of Rs 8,00,000 after offering sale of their house to complainant against a total monetary consideration of Rs 11 lakh, despite knowing fact that the land they were offering for sale, actually belonged to State/ Defence Cantonment/ Waterworks.
Giving details, the official said that a written complaint was lodged by one Sandeep Kumar Suri, son of Krishan Lal Suri, resident of 364/7, Jawahar Nagar, Satwari Cantt, Jammu, alleging therein that accused couple after getting the knowledge of his requirement of a residential house, offered to sell their house for a total consideration amount of Rs 11,00,000, and on request of accused the complainant paid an amount of Rs 8,00,000 as advance money, with rest of the amount to be paid at the time of registration of sale-deed /handing-over the possession of house. “An agreement to sell was also executed between both parties. The complainant requested accused number of times to execute the sale deed and hand over possession of house to him but accused delayed it on one or another pretext. After waiting for about 1½ years, the complainant got suspicious over behaviour of accused and enquired from the Revenue Department about status of land and house in question, where he came to know that land over which the house of the accused exists, does not belong to accused and they are in illegal possession of the land. The complainant then insisted accused person for refund of his advance. The accused assured the complainant that he would be proceeding on voluntarily retirement from service and would refund his money from retirement benefits, whereas the accused had already taken retirement benefits way back, thereby duping the complainant of Rs 8 lakh,” he said. The official further told that on receipt of the complaint, a preliminary verification was conducted and during the course of enquiry, relevant revenue record was obtained. “Documents like Agreement to Sell, Hundi papers were also obtained. The allegations leveled by the complainant were prima-facie substantiated. Thus, for omissions and commissions on the part of the suspect couple, a formal criminal case is registered under Sections 420,120-B of IPC for in-depth investigation,” he asserted.