JAMMU: Crime Branch Jammu has booked a cheat for criminal breach of trust and cheating his business partner.
A criminal case has been registered against accused -Ranbir Sharma son of Dheru Mal Sharma, resident of 34, Partap Garh, Jammu, for cheating and criminal breach of trust in duping his partner by diverting the payments obtained from the Airtel Company to his personal account dishonestly and intentionally in place of joint account. A written complaint was received in Crime Branch, Jammu wherein complainant namely Chaman Lal Kangotra, resident of JDA Plot No. 15, New Rehari, Jammu, alleged that he had agreed to start business with the accused who was already registered with Bharti Airtel Ltd as Airtel vendor for OFC works. They became partner of the firm M/s Ranbir Sharma and Co. In this way the complainant started investing huge amounts of money as per the partnership deed. During the course of business the suspect on one pretext or the other declared that the whole of income, after the loan deductions, was being regularly invested in the capital of the firm and sharing of the profits would be done later. The complainant came to know that the suspect unilaterally opened another account in Canara Bank Gandhi Nagar Jammu without the consent and knowledge of the complainant and continued the transactions of the partnership business illegally and unlawfully through that account for his personal wrongful gains and misappropriated the funds of the firm. After partial settlement of accounts, an amount of Rs 81, 56,978 was found due to the complainant from the side of the suspect as his share which the suspect had promised to pay and subsequently issued one cheque of Rs 32 lakhs which was dishonoured by the bank citing reason of having insufficient funds. On receipt of this complaint, a preliminary verification was initiated and during the course of enquiry oral and documentary evidence was gathered and the allegations were substantiated against the accused.
The omissions and commissions, on the part of accused- Ranbir Sharma prima facie constitute offences punishable U/S 406 RPC. Accordingly, a formal criminal case was registered in P/S Crime Branch, Jammu against the accused person for in-depth investigation.
