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Bank manager, Ex-Cop among 9 booked in separate cases for duping people
The Northlines
|August 04, 2025
The crime branch of Jammu and Kashmir Police has booked nine people, including a bank manager and a former policeman, in five separate cases related to duping people, an official said on Sunday.
He said these individuals have defrauded people of a cumulative amount of around Rs 3 crore, on various pretexts such as arranging MBBS seats or government jobs for them.
In one case, an FIR was registered against a State Bank of India branch manager, Javaid Ashraf Bhatti, after two people complained that he took more than Rs 1.78 crore from them by pretending to sell them a petrol pump. The petrol pump located at Kalakote area of Rajouri district was owned by someone else, the crime branch official said.
This story is from the August 04, 2025 edition of The Northlines.
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