Ponch : A married couple and two others were charge sheeted here for their alleged involvement in swindling Rs 5 crore in loans from a Jammu and Kashmir Bank branch in Poonch district, an official said on Saturday.

The 496-page preliminary charge sheet was filed by the Crime Branch, Jammu, in a court here against Saleem Yosuf Bhatti, the alleged mastermind of the scam, Mohd Altaf and his wife Ruksana Tabassum, and Zahida Parveen, a spokesman of the agency said.

The person said that Bhatti, who earlier worked as a contractual employee in the Integrated Water Management Programme (IWMP) – a central government sponsored scheme – appropriated the money by misusing his position and misrepresenting facts.

The Jammu Crime branch had earlier this year registered a case in the matter following a complaint by the J&K Bank, which alleged that Bhatti along with other illegally ‘activated’ the inactive accounts of Watershed Committee at the bank’s branch in Lassana village of Surankote tehsil in Poonch.(CNI) Current News of India