Berasia police has booked eight persons, including Panchayat Sachiv and Sarpanch of Karhaiyachanvar gram panchayat, for duping Rs 49.85 lakh in the name of collecting compensation of death people who are alive.
The complaint was lodged after it was found that the sarpanch, Sachiv, sarpanch coordination officer and four villagers were involved in cheating villagers by preparing death documents of alive villagers.
The Sarpanch of Karhaiyachanvar gram panchayat, Sachiv Balram Gurjar, Panchayat Coordination officer and Nodal Officer Hukumchand Batham, Panchayat Coordination officer Umashankar Tripathi were involved in the fraud along with four villagers.
The bank account numbers of four villagers were updated for all death claimed submitted in the fraud.
Among the four farmers Pramod Vishwakarma received Rs 25.19 lakh, Bhagwan Singh received Rs 6.17 lakh, Mahesh received Rs 8.7 lakh and Deep Singh received Rs 2.57 lakh. In the fraud bank account number of these four villagers were updated which was part of the fraud.
After the amount was received, it was distributed among the accused. The enquiry was conducted on the instructions of district collector Tarun Pithode.
CEO Zila Panchayat Satish S Kumar ordered to CEO Janpad Panchayat Berasia to lodged complaint for registering case against the fraudsters.
In the investigation police found that from June 9, 2018 and December 29, 2019 the accused including four villagers, Sarpanch, Sachiv and two Panchayat Coordination Officer colluded to dupe Rs 49.85 lakh.
The police have registered a case under section 420 of the IPC and started further investigation.