Srinagar: The Crime Branch of Kashmir on Thursday arrested six persons including a lady clerk of Srinagar Municipal Corporation(SMC) for issuing building permissions and certificates fraudently by forging the signature of the issuing authority.
The investigation into the case followed after the Crime Branch, Kashmir received a written communication which stated that Divisional Planner, SMC Srinagar had detected four building permissions wherein the signatures of issuing authority have been forged. It further alleged that, Health Officer of SMC had found that the Date of Birth(DOB) certificates issued on behalf of the concerned authority were also fake.
“During the course of investigation, it surfaced that the building permissions and DOB certificates have been issued fraudulently after resorting to forgery. These acts of omission and commission on the part of the accused persons, prima facie discloses commission of offences Punishable U/S 420, 468, 471, 120-B RPC”, the Crime branch statement said. Following which, an FIR was registered in this case under No.55 of 2016, it added.
Accordingly, the Crime Branch produced a chargesheet against six persons in the case before the Court of Forest Magistrate Srinagar. The accused included Mrs Mymoona W/O Javid Ahmad Shah R/O Shalteng posted as clerk in SMC, Ghulam Mohidin Dar S/O Abdul Rahim resident of Urpash, Ganderbal, Mohammad Amin Shora S/O Ali Mohammad Shora resident of Darish Kadal, Safakadal Srinagar, Bashir Ahmad Najar S/O Ali Mohammad Najar resident of Shalteng, Pathpora Srinagar, Mohammad Shafi Batloo S/O Ghulam Mohammad Batloo resident of Zaldagar, Srinagar and Ghulam Nabi Wani S/O Ali Mohammad Wani resident of Shaheed Gunj, Srinagar.
The court, as per the statement, has sent all six accused persons to judicial custody and have been lodged at Central Jail, Srinagar.

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