• Srinagar, Dec 06 : The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Crime Branch Kashmir has filed a chargesheet in a high-value export fraud case against two accused persons, including alleged habitual offender Zahid Bashir Sofi alias Shagoo, before the Court of the City Judge, Srinagar. In a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), it said that the chargesheet in FIR No. 31/2023 under Sections 420 and 120-B RPC has been submitted in absentia under Section 512 CrPC, as both accused continue to remain absconding. According to the EOW, Shagoo and co-accused Javeed Ahmad Shah allegedly induced the complainant to invest in a purported export business involving mutton, rice and other goods to Dubai. The probe found that the complainant was taken to Punjab to sign a forged agreemen

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