Ex-jawan held for fraud

SRINAGAR: An army jawan, dismissed from services for fraud eight years ago, has been arrested by the police for decamping with cash from jawans in transit camps in Jammu, disguised as a soldier on duty.

Krishnendu Sarkar of West Bengal was arrested after other jawans got suspicious about him in the 213-transit camp in Trikuta Nagar, Jammu. The jawans asked him to show his identity card which was tampered with, giving credence to their doubts.

He is now cooling his heels in the Trikuta Nagar police station.

“Sarkar was carrying a fake identity card. He had superimposed his picture on someone else’s identity card. He used to steal money from soldiers in the camp,” said Subhash Chander, station house officer of the police station.
 
Sarkar, a sepoy of the signal regiment, was court-martialled for embezzling funds while posted in Bhopal in 1998. He was dismissed from service and served a two-year rigorous imprisonment term. “We have handed him over to police for investigation,” said Lieutenant Colonel SD Goswami, ministry of defence spokesman at Jammu.

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