Jammu: Economic Offences Wing – Crime Branch Jammu produced a 1266-page chargesheet against 6 accused affiliates of Swarn Bhavya Gold Pvt. Ltd. including its Managing Director – Balwinder Kumar S/o Deep Chand R/o H.No-230 near Patwar Khana Siwan District Kaithal Haryana in case FIR No.11/2020 U/S 420, 120-B IPC P/S EOW – Crime Branch, Jammu in the Hon’ble Court of law for judicial determination. The accused after hatching criminal conspiracy induced the complainant and other people to invest their money in the said Company with the promise of providing bonus income every 15 days on their deposits and more bonus income on creating a network of depositors and ultimately defrauded them by duping their money.
The other accused persons involved in the commission of the crime are Sushil Kumar son of Kashmeeri Lal, resident of Near Old Water Tank Siwan Kaithal Haryana; Sandeep Kumar S/o Abhey Ram R/o Village Pai, Kaithal Haryana; Deepak Singh S/o Sahib Singh R/o H.No214, Ward No.22 near GPS School Kaithal Haryana; Saphali Singh D/o Hemant Kumar Singh R/o H.No-103, Janak Puri C-1, Pankha Road, New Delhi West and Manveer Singh S/o Baljeet Singh R/o Duplex No.205, Gulmohar City Extension, Dera Bassi HaibatPur Road, SAS Nagar, Mohali Punjab.
The case stems its origin from a written complaint lodged in Crime Branch Jammu by complainants – 1) Mohd. Younis S/o Abdul Aziz R/o Namlabal Pampore, 2) Asrar Ahmed S/o Gulam Mohd. R/o Nowgam Srinagar, 3)Ayaz Ahmed S/o Mushtaq Ahmed R/o Poonch and 4) Mushtaq Dar S/o Mohd Bashir R/o Rajal Nowshera Rajouri, alleging that accused Balwinder Kumar –Director of Bhavya Gold Company along with Sandeep Kumar and Deepak came to J&K in the month of October-2017 and launched programmes by conducting seminars at different Hotels in J&K to motivate people to invest money with inducement to get bonus income after every 15 days and for further bonus by creating network of investors. People were assured that the company was genuine and registered with RBI. The said company collected a huge amount from J&K State within three months. Initially, the Complainants and others got their bonus well in time but later their bonus was stopped and they were cheated.
On receipt of the complaint a Preliminary Verification was conducted and during enquiry, the allegations made of cheating and fraud were prima-facie substantiated, leading to the registration of a formal case under the relevant sections of law for in-depth probe. During the investigation, all material evidence gathered besides statements of complainants & witnesses were recorded and the offences U/S 420, 120-B IPC are established against the accused persons for cheating the complainants and other innocent people.
During the investigation, well-coordinated efforts were made by teams of Crime Branch Jammu to arrest the accused persons across various states of North India as they remained elusive for a long time.(GNS)
