SRINAGAR, August 2,2025 : After nearly two decades of legal proceedings, the Court of City Judge Srinagar, presided by Abdul Bari, has convicted two men for cheating a foreign national in a Rs 34 lakh property scam dating back to 2008.
The convicts—Mukhtar Ahmad Guroo and Nazir Ahmad Guroo, sons of Gulla Guroo and residents of Abi Karpora, Dalgate—were found guilty of duping a foreign woman by fraudulently selling her a property she legally could not own under Jammu and Kashmir laws.
The case began when the Crime Branch Kashmir registered an FIR on June 26, 2010, based on a complaint by the victim. She alleged that Mukhtar Guroo took Rs 34 lakh from her to buy a house and land in Srinagar’s Gulab Bagh area, but registered the property solely in his name, concealing the legal restriction on foreign nationals owning land in J&K.
The complainant, who first came to India in the early 1990s, met Mukhtar in Goa in 2005. Their relationship developed into a domestic partnership, and she later moved to Kashmir, unaware she was not legally listed as a co-owner of the property she had funded.
In a sharply worded judgment, the court termed the act as a “calculated betrayal of trust” by individuals who exploited the victim’s personal and emotional vulnerability.
Mukhtar Ahmad Guroo was convicted under Section 420 of the Ranbir Penal Code and sentenced to two years of simple imprisonment along with a fine of ₹5,000. Nazir Ahmad Guroo was found guilty of abetment under Sections 109 read with 420 RPC and awarded the same sentence.
The court ruled that in case of failure to pay the fine, both convicts would face an additional six months of imprisonment. The sentences will run concurrently.
Additional Public Prosecutor Vikas Kumar represented the state in the case.
