SRINAGAR, Dec 12: The Special Crime Wing of Crime Branch Kashmir has filed a chargesheet in FIR No. 07/2022 before the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Handwara against a Public Works Department (R&B) employee accused of forging his date of birth to secure illegal regularisation, the agency said on Friday.

The chargesheet, filed on December 11, 2025, invokes RPC sections 420, 468, 471, and 201 for cheating, forgery, use of forged documents, and destruction of evidence. The case stemmed from a communication by the Public Works Department seeking an inquiry into the suspected manipulation of the date of birth of Abdul Rashid Lone, son of Mohammad Ahsan Lone of Chogal, Handwara, employed as a Helper in the R&B Division.

Preliminary inquiry revealed Lone had allegedly submitted a fake medical

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