Jammu Tawi, Aug. 3 -- 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.
In the second case,...