Court rejects second time bail plea of SA in Advocate General J&K’s office arrested in alleged fake recruitment scam

07/12/2021

SRINAGAR, Dec 6: Special Judge Anticorruption Kashmir CL Bavoria rejected the second time bail plea of Mohammad Yaqoob Bhat Senior Assistant in Advocate General Officer was arrested by the Crime Branch in alleged fake recruitment scam.
The FIR has been registered after receipt of a communication from Z.A. Dewani, (Administrative Officer, Office of the Advocate General, J&K) alleging therein that fake orders bearing No's 76 AG of 2021 and 79 AG of 2021 dated 13.07.2021 are being circulated on social media showing the selection of 33 persons as Jr. Assistants and other 33 persons as Orderlies, however, no such orders have been issued by the office of the Advocate General, J&K.
Accordingly an enquiry was initiated at Crime Branch Kashmir and during the probe, it came to fore that some touts have conspired with Mohammad Yaqoob Bhat, (Sr. Assistant) posted in the office of the Learned Advocate General, J&K who have lured the candidates on the fake promise of providing jobs. "During probe it also surfaced that some beneficiaries have transferred huge amount of money in the account maintained in the name of Mohammad Yaqoob Bhat.
Special Judge Anticorruption Kashmir CL Bavoria after hearing both the sides observed that the allegations against the petitioner as laid above are serious, grave and incriminating in nature and demonstrate his unprofessional conduct, unbecoming of a public servant with the eye on minting public money. From the evidence collected by the prosecution till date as reveals from police report & CD file, there are genuine reasonable grounds that petitioner has committed offences as referred in FIR. Therefore having considered the same in the light of the aforementioned judicial pronouncement, the incriminating material that has come fore against the petitioner during investigation, the stage is not right to grant bail in favour of the petitioner.
Court further observed that the investigation in the case is in its embryonic stage and various facts are required to be yet investigated. The other persons/officials who conspired with the accused to defraud the candidates by swindling huge amount of money are still at large and the involvement of some influential in part of the criminal conspiracy with the accused, the investigation qua their role is going on and so the concession of bail at this stage shall undeniably prejudice and obstruct the further course of investigation as material witnesses being influenced with, cannot be ruled out. With these observations, the Court rejected the bail application.

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