Srinagar- A court in Jammu and Kashmir has convicted a 93-year-old former managing director of J-K Cooperative Central Land Development Limited for forging his date of birth to extend service.

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch Kashmir has secured the conviction of the former MD Mohammad Shafi Banday for “fraudulently manipulating” his date of birth to unlawfully extend his service tenure.

The case originated from a complaint alleging that the accused had deliberately recorded his date of birth as September 1, 1939 instead of 1934 by producing a fake certificate, a spokesman of the EOW said.

He said a probe was initiated by the Crime Branch Kashmir, during which, the verification confirmed the manipulation, and established that his actual date of birth was June 26, 19

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