Guwahati: Assam police have busted a huge racket involved in the fraudulent withdrawal of PM Fasal Bima Yojana in middle Assam districts. The racket has withdrawn over Rs 60 lakhs in the name of false beneficiaries created using forged documents. The racket has withdrawn over Rs 60 lakhs from 240 beneficiaries’ accounts on the same day in Morigaon district.
On specific information, Morigaon police, led by Additional superintendent of police (ASP) conducted a search in the SBI Customer Service Point (CSP) located at Boribazar market belonging to one Jiabur Rahman S and run by Motiur Rahman and recovered 227 numbers SBI Account Passbook, 460 numbers of SBI ATM Cards, 24 numbers of HDFC ATM Cards, 26 numbers of Registers having a record of Bank account holders, One Desktop Computer Set and some PAN cards and AADHAR cards. ASP Baishya informed the media that Rupees 24522 was credited to thousands of PM Fasal Bima Yojana claimants on April 5 2023. Immediately Rs 60 lakhs were withdrawn from 240 accounts of the beneficiaries.
Police suspected a scam and acted swiftly on it. It was supposed that the CSP owner had procured this vast number of ATM Cards by opening bank accounts of ordinary people through his CSP in assisting with other co-accused persons and withdrawing a considerable amount of money by depriving the actual account holders fraudulently by keeping the ATM Cards in his hands for cheating them. The suspected accused persons had also opened some bank accounts in his CSP by forging documents to misappropriate Government money allotted to the beneficiaries under different schemes. Four accused persons were arrested by Morigaon police, namely Masud Ahmed, Mubarak Hussain, Saddam Hussain and Taskir Ahmed.
In their investigation, police found no real beneficiary received the credited and withdrawn amount of PM Fasal Bima Yojna. One Dilwar Hussain, still at large, opened all these accounts in the Central Bank of India CSP. One Jiabur Rahman of Nagaon district was the mastermind of the entire scam. Police arrested Jiabur Rahman on April 25. On police interrogation, Jiabur Rahman confessed that he has a community service centre in the Kachuwa area in the Nagaon district. After opening these accounts using forged documents, he did online insurance for the beneficiaries under PM Fasal Bima Yojna.
After that, they claim benefits against these accounts again using false documents. When the appropriated money was debited to these accounts, the rackets withdrew the money from the forged accounts. Morigaon police are investigating whether banks or other Government officials are also involved in this scam. It has been estimated that these rackets have opened several thousand forged accounts in Assam under PM Fasal Bima Yojan and suspected that crores of Rupees had been withdrawn.
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