Raipur:
In a stunning case of fraud in a Chhattisgarh authorities scheme for married girls, a person allegedly opened an account within the identify of actor Sunny Leone and had been pocketing the sum of Rs 1,000 deposited in it each month.
Below the BJP authorities’s Mahtari Vandan Yojana, married girls in Chhattisgarh obtain Rs 1,000 into their accounts each month. It has now come to mild that one of many accounts the place the sum was being deposited was within the identify of Sunny Leone.
The person who allegedly opened and operated this account has been recognized as Virendra Joshi and a case is being registered towards him for additional motion. Officers chargeable for verification of eligible beneficiaries of the scheme are additionally being recognized.
The fraud has been reported at Talur village in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar area. District collector Haris S has requested the Girls and Baby Growth Division to hold out an in-depth probe into this matter and seize the checking account for restoration. In keeping with officers, media stories had drawn their consideration to this stunning case of fraud.
The revelation has sparked a heated alternate between the ruling BJP and the Opposition Congress.
State Congress chief Deepak Baij has alleged that over 50 per cent of beneficiaries below the Mahtari Vandan Yojana are pretend. Deputy Chief Minister Arun Sao shot again that the Congress is pained as a result of girls of the state at the moment are receiving the month-to-month help that the Congress couldn’t present in its earlier time period.