Jammu and Kashmir High Court refused to offer former chairman J&K State Cooperative Bank relief from FIR for his alleged involvement in the Rs 230 crore scam, report local media outlets.
The anti-corruption dept had detected the fraud involving bank officials, including the ex-chairman Mohammad Shafi Dar and Hilal Ahmad Mir, the chairman of non-existent Cooperative Society named River Jhelum Cooperative house Colony at Shivpora Srinagar.
Dar had moved the court seeking quashing of the FIR registered against him by the anti-corruption dept.