Fraudsters charge-sheeted for illegal sale of house to various parties

Crime Branch Jammu has presented a charge-sheet against three fraudsters for their involvement in duping the complainant of his hard-earned money on pretext of sale of a house located at Mattoo Colony, Sai Vihar Deeli, Tehsil Jammu.

As per the official spokesperson of the investigating agency, the sleuths of Crime Branch presented charge-sheet against three fraudsters namely Soma Devi, wife of Late Ganisham, resident of 316, Saini Vihar, Mattoo Colony, Deeli; Mohan Lal and Deepak Kumar, both sons of Khazan Chand, resident of 1717, Sector-4, Nanak Nagar in FIR No.

38/ 2018 under sections 420 and 120-B of RPC registered at Police Station Crime Branch, Jammu in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Jammu for judicial determination. Giving further details, the official said that a written complaint was lodged at Crime Branch Jammu by one Lal Chand, son of Parkash Chand, resident of 171, Nanak Nagar wherein it was alleged that prime suspect Soma Devi approached applicant for the sale of land measuring 2.5 Marlas, on which she had constructed a house and entered into an agreement to sell against payment of Rs.1,00,000 as Byana (advance payment) in 2015. After payment of money, applicant learnt that prior to entering into agreement to sell, accused had already sold aforesaid property to one Vijay Gupta of Trikuta Nagar, Jammu in 2014.

Thereafter, applicant approached accused Soma Devi and asked her to return money or give possession of property but of no avail, thereby cheating complainant by offering a property which had already been sold off by accused. “On receipt of the complaint a Preliminary Verification was initiated, after which allegations leveled were prima-facie substantiated against accused persons, leading to the registration of instant criminal case.

During investigation, Crime Branch Jammu seized all the relevant documents, recorded statements of witnesses, collected scientific evidence (FSL Expert opinion)/ material evidence including Bank transactions and Revenue Records which established offences of cheating and criminal conspiracy against all three accused persons for selling off a property to two different parties at different times despite fact that the property did not belong to Soma Devi, thereby, duping complainant of his hard-earned money by way of cheating and criminal conspiracy,” the official added.