Reserve Bank of India holds sensitisation programme for Police & Prosecuting Officers

Jammu, 23 Feb: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Jammu Regional Office organised a sensitisation programme for Police & Prosecuting Officers of Jammu Division on Non-Banking Financial Companies and Cyber Frauds in collaboration with the Crime Branch, J&K at Police Auditorium, Jammu on February 22, 2024.
The programme covered various aspects of NBFCs, financial frauds, their modus operandi and various other preventive and investigative measures. Know Your Customer (KYC) guidelines and Money Laundering was discussed during the programme. Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes (BUDS) 2019 Act, its various sections and status of implementation in UT of J&K was deliberated upon in the programme.

The programme was attended by senior dignitaries from Police Department, RBI Jammu & Prosecution Department. Shri A K Choudhary-IPS, Special DG Crime Branch J&K was the Chief Guest & inaugurated the programme. Shri Neeraj Kumar, General Manager, RBI, Shri Laeeq Ahmed Dar Joint Director Crime Branch, Shri Aejaz Ahmed, Mrs Sunita Kargotra Joint Directors and S Bopinder Singh, Dy Directors Prosecution, Ms Sudesh Kumari, AGM, RBI and other officials of Police Department and RBI also attended the said programme.
The sessions in the program were delivered by Shri Sahil Bhardwaj, Shri Rahul Gautam, Assistant Managers, RBI, Shri Nayeem Abbas Hamdani, Cyber Forensic Consultant, Cyber Police and Shri Wasim Ahmed Lone, Deputy Legal Remembrance, Law Department. Over 80 Police Officers of various ranks including Officers from Prosecution attended the programme. Sh Laeeq Ahmad JDP delivered a lecture at the conclusion of the Programme.
The programme had seen vide participation from Police & Prosecuting Officers. The participants discussed problems being faced upon while investigating the cases related to financial frauds and the queries were well addressed by the speakers.