Srinagar, July 29 -- Economic offences wing (EOW) of J&K Police arrested four persons while looking for three more, including a tehsildar and a patwari, who are absconding, in a major case of corruption, cheating, false mutations and wrongful insertions in revenue records.

The EOW, previously crime branch Kashmir, has arrested the four out of seven accused after their investigation revealed that the involved persons operated in an organised manner causing substantial financial loss and agony to gullible people in Srinagar and Budgam districts.

"Four persons were arrested under an FIR No. 14/2025 U/S 167,420, 120-B RPC r/w 5(2) Prevention of Corruption Act Svt. 2006. dated 09.07.2025 registered against seven individuals, including two re...