The Asian Age

CBI steno’s fraud case filed by cops after 3- yr struggle

- SHWETA SINGH

A woman stenograph­er with Central Bureau Of Investigat­ion ( CBI) was made to wait for more than three years to file her complaint with Delhi police after she was allegedly duped by a man from Jammu and Kashmir ( J& K) of ` 2 lakh on the pretext that he would send her to Germany for work.

Despite repeated attempts, the police turned down her request and it was only after the court’s interventi­on that her complaint was filed on April 4.

Adding insult to the injury, when the complainan­t approached the police to lodge a Firt Informatio­n Report, the police initially declined. and registered one only after the court intervened.

The victim stated, “I filed a complaint against the cheater at the Tilak Marg police station for necessary legal action, but the police neither has registered the First Informatio­n Report nor have investigat­ed the matter despite the fact that a prima facie offence under Sections 419, 420, 384 of IPC is made out against the accused.”

According to the FIR, the accused, identified as Mudashir Kadif alias Shabbu, resident of Baramullah, and works at Jahangir Continenta­l Hotel, Dal Lake

The complainan­t, who is a resident Sonipat, Haryana and was working at Lodhi road in the CBI in her compliant that she along with her

The victim said, filed a complaint against him at the Tilak Marg police station for legal action, but the police didn’t lodge an FIR and probe the case, but did so only after the court intervened’

younger sister and minor son on June 2015 visited Srinagar and stayed at a local hotel where the accused met them. The accused said that he was also employed in sending people to foreign countries on a working visa by arranging jobs in US, Canada and Germany.

He told her that he also arranged passports and visas. The accused repeatedly asked the complainan­t whether she was interested in taking up the job of a computer operator in Canada or Germany and she agreed.

The accused asked her to pay him ` 10 lakh for arranging passport and visa and the victim agreed to pay him.

On July 2015, she paid him ` 20,000 in Srinagar and returned to Delhi and when the accused came to Delhi, he took Rs 70,000 and copies of documents wkth him in July 2015 at Patiala House Court premises.

From July to December 2015, the complainan­t grew suspicious as theaccused only cited excuses, but demanded more money.

In December, he asked her to come to Srinagar where he asked her to give ` 1 lakh.

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