Srinagar, Sep 06: The Economic Offences Wing Srinagar of Crime Branch Kashmir (CBK) on Wednesday said it arrested a ‘proclaimed offender’ from New Delhi who was wanted in multiple cases of fraud and had been evading arrest for the last 18 years.
The CBK in a statement issued here said Sami-ul-Lah Sheikh, son of Abdul Rashid Sheikh, a resident of Darish Kadal, Srinagar, presently Arampora Nawakadal, Srinagar, was arrested from New Delhi.
The modus operandi adopted by the accused individual in committing financial crimes was that he would fabricate fake and forged revenue documents and hoodwink the banks by availing hefty loans against such documents, the CBK said, adding, “He had swindled more than one crore rupees from various banks and had been constantly changing his residential locations since the year 2007 to escape the clutches of law.”
A special team of Economic Offences Wing Srinagar (Crime Branch Kashmir), which had been assiduously working on tracing the conman, succeeded in locating and arresting him from his hide-out in the Lajpat Nagar area of New Delhi, the statement said.
The probe body added, “In case FIR No. 59/2007 of Police Station Special Crime Wing Srinagar (Crime Branch Kashmir), the accused was involved in hatching a criminal conspiracy to fraudulently avail a loan to the tune of Rs 48 lakh from the Indian Overseas Bank (Branch Dalgate, Srinagar) on the basis of fake and forged revenue documents. The case was charge-sheeted against him (in absentia; u/S 512 CrPC) as well as the other co-accused u/S 420, 468, 471 & 120-B RPC before the Hon’ble court of competent jurisdiction.”
“In case FIR No. 34/2015 of Police Station Economic Offences Wing Srinagar (Crime Branch Kashmir), the accused was involved in hatching a criminal conspiracy to fraudulently avail a loan to the tune of Rs 37.80 lakh from J&K Bank (Branch Zainakot, Srinagar) on the basis of fake and forged revenue documents. The case was charge-sheeted against him (in absentia; u/S 512 CrPC) as well as the other co-accused u/S 420, 467, 468, 471 & 120-B RPC before the Hon’ble court of competent jurisdiction. During the trial of said case, the Hon’ble Court of Pr. District and Sessions Judge Srinagar had declared him a ‘Proclaimed Offender’,” the statement said.
The CBK said the accused individual is also wanted in case FIR No. 05/2019 of Police Station Economic Offences Wing Srinagar (Crime Branch Kashmir) which pertains to the availing of a loan to the tune of Rs 30 lakh by producing fake and forged documents. “Consequent upon his arrest, the accused Sami-ul-Lah Sheikh has been brought to justice,” it said.
