Woman booked under Public Safety Act in Budgam for 'criminal, anti-social activities'

September 30, 2022 by News Desk

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Police on Friday said that a woman was booked under Public Safety Act in central Kashmir’s Budgam district for committing criminal and anti-social activities.

In a handout, the police said that Police it have booked a notorious fraudster identified as Shoki wife of Ghulam Rasool Dar@ Las Shikari resident of Gangbugh Srinagar under the Public Safety Act for her unrelenting involvement in criminal/anti-social activities and deceiving/looting the gullible people.

The booked lady has been continuously deceiving, befooling and looting the gullible people with her craftiness. Many a time she was found to be involved in forcibly trespassing the land of people on the pretext of land deals and grabbing the same through deceitful means.

The police spokesman further stated that the said woman also used to attack the owners of said land/property with the help of her goons and used to threaten common masses of her area to face dire consequences if not allowed such illegal activities.

The booked woman is the wife of a land broker namely Ghulam Rasool Dar @ Las Shikari and these both are acting in hand and glove in selling the land/property on fake revenue documents and the subject has also been found in interfering in the matters relating to sale/purchase of land in her vicinity, he said.

Her repeated behavior of indulging in offenses and activities had created resentment among the public and turned into a law and order situation, he said.

The woman has been detained under PSA after obtaining sanctions from the concerned authorities for her involvement in seven cases of cheating already registered against her in district Srinagar and Budgam, the spokesman said.

Community members are once again advised to be aware and not to fall prey to such fraudsters/land grabbers and report any such suspicious or fraudulent activity as early as possible, reads the statement.