172 Bihar, Bengal women availed Maiya funds with forged docus
Following the detection of the fraudulent withdrawal of the first instalment of the scheme amounts, the East Singhbhum district administration has initiated action to penalise the fraudsters and recover the money from them.
In its initial action, the administration has filed an FIR against the 172 women with the Galudih police station apart from taking up steps by DC Karn Satyarthi to freeze their bank accounts on Thursday.
Talking about the fraud, a district administration official, SDO Sunil Chandra said, "There's a suspicion that some gang is involved in conducting the fraud. Police will extensively probe and get to the root of it."
The fraud was first detected during scrutiny of the accounts of the MSY beneficiaries by the Galudih block officials. They initially found 132 women from Uttar Dinajpur under the Chopra police station of Bengal included in the beneficiary list.
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Later, they also detected 40 women from a village under the Thakurganj police station of Kishanganj district of Bihar. All these women have produced forged residential documents to avail of the Jharkhand govt's scheme.
"All 172 women have shown in their documents that they are the residents of Cholagora village in Hendaljuri panchayat under Galudih thana limits in Ghatsila block," said Mangal Tudu, the panchayat secretary of Hendaljuri.
Moreover, their bank documents showed that all 172 women belonged to a particular minority community and incidentally none of the people of that community actually live in the eight villages of the Hendaljuri panchayat. The women under scanner have opened their bank accounts with the SBI Ghatsila branch and have also withdrawn one instalment of the MSY scheme, officials added.
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