Fake registration racket busted, 3 held for duping Shri Amarnath Ji devotees in Jammu

Fake registration racket busted, 3 held for duping Shri Amarnath devotees in Jammu

JAMMU, 2 July 2023: Jammu Police busted a racket involved in the preparation and sale of fake registration slips of Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra – 2023 thereby duping devotees and the prime accused of this racket alongwith two of his associates have been arrested on Saturday.

SSP Jammu Chandan Kohli said that during the examination of yatra registration slips of some devotees of the ongoing Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra, Jammu Administration found that some devotees possess fake slips.

Upon this cognizance was taken and the investigation was set into motion wherein it came to the fore that these devotees have been duped by a racket being run from Delhi wherein fake registration slips are being provided to the pilgrims.

A case in FIR 188/23 U/S 420 IPC was registered at Trikuta Nagar police station and an investigation of the matter was set into motion. It was thoroughly probed by a team of concerned PS, SDPO East and SP South Jammu.

During the investigation, it came to the fore that a man from Delhi is running a racket involved in the preparation of these fake registration slips than a team of Jammu police raided Delhi and succeeded in the arrest of the accused namely Harender Verma’s son of Devinder Verma resident of West Rohtas Nagar, Shahdra Delhi.

Later two of his accused namely Daleep Prajapati son of Hari Chand, and Vinod Kumar son of Jagan Nath were also arrested.

The main accused was involved in the preparation of fake registration slips while the other two associates were indulged in arranging bus service and medical certificates for devotees.

The accused were running this racket and selling fake registration slips to devotees duping them of their hard-earned money.

During the raid, a computer and printer used in the crime have also been seized and further investigation is going on.

SSP Jammu Chandan Kohli appealed to devotees desiring to come on the pilgrimage of Shri Amarnath Ji to register themselves only through notified Government means and not to fall prey to the hands of these criminals.