Srinagar: Crime Branch Kashmir produced a charegsheet against a person for fraudulently selling State land to a woman in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
Police in a statement here said that Special Crime Wing (Crime Branch) Srinagar produced charge-sheet of case FIR No. 06/2022 before the Court of Sub Judge Pattan against one Mohammad Ashraf Wani, son of Mohammad Munawar Wani, resident of Utikoo, Kawarhama Baramulla for his involvement in commission of offences punishable under section 420, 511 RPC. He had sold State land to a woman.
The case was registered in Crime Branch Kashmir on a complaint lodged by complainant alleging therein that on 01.03.2016 she purchased a piece of land measuring seven marlas under survey No.666, plot No. 03 situated at Utikoo Tehsil Karhama Baramulla from accused Mohammad Ashraf Wani for Rs 2.10 lakhs under a proper sale agreement, the statement said.
However, when she applied for its registration and revenue extracts, the Revenue department refused its registration saying that the land in question is State land and cannot be sold or purchased.
“Accordingly preliminary verification No.06/2019 was initiated at Crime Branch Kashmir,” the statement reads.
During enquiry, it came to forth that the land under survey No. 666 in Estate Karhama is State land, which the accused Wani had sold to the complainant, without any right or authority. Accordingly, the case FIR No.6/2022 was registered in Crime Branch Kashmir and investigation initiated, it added.
“During investigation, statements of the persons familiar with the facts and circumstances of the case were recorded and records having bearing on the subject matter were also procured from the concerned offices as per procedure,” it said.
“As per the evidence gathered during investigation, it was established that accused Wani had attempted to cheat the complainant by sale of State land by concealing the fact that he is not the actual owner of the said land,” the statement said, adding that on the basis of facts and circumstances that emerged during the course of investigation, the investigation of the case was concluded as proved under section 420, 511 RPC against the said accused.
