SRINAGAR: A local court has convicted seven individuals in a two-decade-old case involving the preparation and submission of a forged 10th-grade marks card to fraudulently secure a school admission.
The Court of the City Judge Srinagar delivered the verdict in FIR No. 54/2002, registered at the Crime Branch Kashmir (now Economic Offences Wing), under Sections 420, 468, 471, and 120-B of the Ranbir Penal Code (RPC).
The accused were found to have colluded in creating and presenting a fake academic certificate to gain admission for one of them into a higher secondary school in the Valley. The court, relying on strong documentary and oral evidence presented by the prosecution, found all seven individuals guilty.
Each of the convicted persons was sentenced to two years of simple imprisonment and fined Rs 5,000 for their respective roles in the forgery.
Crime Branch Kashmir has convicted two men for defrauding a foreign national of Rs 34 lakh under the false pretext of facilitating a property purchase in Kashmir.
