Chandigarh : The state mining department has unearthed a fraud wherein scammers ‘cloned’ the official website and used it to generate passes for the mining vehicles, causing a loss to the state exchequer.
An FIR under Sections 303 (2) (theft), 318 (4) (cheating), 336 (2) (forgery), 336 (3) (commits forgery, intending that the document or electronic record forged shall be used for the purpose of cheating), 338 (forging a document which purports to be valuable security), 340 (2) (fraudulently or dishonestly uses as genuine any document or electronic record), 61(2) (criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Section 21 of the Mines and Minerals Act 1957 has been registered at the Shahkot police station on January 6, when “fake” documents were first detected by field staff of the mining department. The investigation is being conducted by Jalandhar rural police.
Cheif engineer (mining) Harinderpal Singh Bedi apprised principal secretary, alleged that the scam to the tune of ₹100 crore involved the creation of clone websites to generate passes for mining vehicles.
