J&K/POONCH (The Stellar News), Anil Bhardwaj: A married couple and two others were charge sheeted here for their alleged involvement in swindling Rs 5 crore in loans from a Jammu and Kashmir Bank branch in Poonch district, an official said on Saturday.
The 496-page preliminary charge sheet was filed by the Crime Branch, Jammu, in a court here against Saleem Yosuf Bhatti, the alleged mastermind of the scam, Mohd Altaf and his wife Ruksana Tabassum, and Zahida Parveen, a spokesman of the agency said.
The person said that Bhatti, who earlier worked as a contractual employee in the Integrated Water Management Programme (IWMP) – a central government sponsored scheme – appropriated the money by misusing his position and misrepresenting facts.
The Jammu Crime branch had earlier this year registered a case in the matter following a complaint by the J&K Bank, which alleged that Bhatti along with other illegally ‘activated’ the inactive accounts of Watershed Committee at the bank’s branch in Lassana village of Surankote tehsil in Poonch.
