Srinagar: The Crime Branch Kashmir (CBK) on Saturday produced a preliminary chargesheet against a non-local resident for allegedly uploading fake application forms on National Scholarship portal for merit cum means scholarship.
According to a statement issued on Saturday, officials said that CBK produced preliminary chargesheet against the accused Salem Sheikh of West Bengal in a case under FIR number 04/2020 under sections 420, 468, 120-B, 201 RPC and 66 (D) IT Act before the Anti-corruption Court Srinagar for uploading fake application forms on National Scholarship portal for merit cum means scholarship.
The accused Salem Sheik from West Bengal, who was apprehended and brought to Kashmir, by a Crime Branch Kashmir team headed by a DySP, for his involvement in uploading fake application forms on national scholarship portal for merit cum means scholarship Under Minority quota for J&K Students during the year 2018-19 for district Kulgam, the statement said.
“Subsequently, fake verifications were conducted from the institutes which did not exist in the states mentioned in the application forms,” the statement added