Police arrests fake DySP NIA and ED officer in Ganderbal

STC NEWS DESK
SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 12 (STC): Jammu and Kashmir Police in Ganderbal have nabbed a notorious fraudster for impersonating as a senior government officer and duping people with false promises of jobs.
The accused has been identified as Illyas Hameed Bhat, son of Abdul Hameed Bhat, a resident of Bakura in Ganderbal. A case under FIR number 136/2025 has been registered against him at Police Station Ganderbal.

According to the reports quoting police, the accused posed as Deputy Superintendent of Police in the National Investigation Agency, as an administrator at Kashmir University, and even as a senior officer in the Enforcement Directorate at different times. “By projecting himself as an influential official, he lured several people and extracted money on the pretext of providing them government jobs. He also manufactured forged documents, including job appointment letters and identity cards,” said the report.
The reports reveal that the police team while having backing of a court warrant, searched his residence and seized incriminating material including forged appointment orders and fake identity cards.
The report quoting police sources also mentions that one case had earlier been registered against the accused at Police Station Nishat in Srinagar in a similar matter.
(Straight Talk Communications)