Srinagar, Nov 1: City Judge Srinagar Abdul Bari sentenced former Managing Director of the JK Cooperative Central Land Development Bank Limited, Muhammad Shafi Banday and imposed a Rs 5,000 fine on him after he was found guilty for the offences for, he was tried to two years of simple imprisonment and imposed a fine for manipulating his date of birth to unlawfully extend his tenure of service.

As per the prosecution, the case originated from a communication received by the Crime Branch Kashmir on October 15, 2012, alleging that Banday had shown his date of birth as September 1, 1939, instead of 1934, by producing a fudged certificate.

Departmental verification later confirmed the manipulation through multiple official correspondences.

The investigation revealed that Banday had overstayed

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