On Monday, the Central Crime Branch officers arrested an individual for allegedly forging paperwork and serving to individuals to avail previous age pension scheme advantages for financial achieve.
The accused recognized as Chatur Ok.S., is a pre-university dropout and a local of Shivamogga. The police discovered that the accused solid paperwork for over 200 faux beneficiaries to avail month-to-month pension below the scheme of the federal government. He was charging individuals a value starting from ₹5,000 to ₹10,000.
His affiliate, recognized as Mannur Nagaraju, managed to flee and efforts are on to trace him down, S.D. Sharanappa, Joint Commissioner of Police stated.
Explaining the modus operandi, Mr. Sharanappa stated that the accused, by utilizing a PDF modifying software program, manipulated the date of beginning printed on Aadhaar playing cards. He would then print the fabricated Aadhaar copies and submit it to the income officers involved together with the opposite required paperwork together with financial institution particulars and BPL playing cards with tampered particulars to use for the previous age pension scheme. As per the first requirement of the previous age scheme, the applicant should be a senior citizen. However, the accused would manipulate the date of beginning for the candidates who’re aged 40, 48 and even 30 years previous, the probe revealed.
The CCB is now verifying the position of the income officers and employees on the village panchayats involved as they’ve processed the purposes with out correct verification. The CCB officers can be issuing notices to the income officers involved for questioning and to determine their roles. “The accused would fabricate the Aadhaar details superficially and a simple verification by the officials could have exposed the racket, much before. However the officials have not carried out background verification which led to suspicion of their role,” stated a police officer a part of the investigation.
The accused has been booked below varied sections of IT Act and likewise below part 420 (dishonest) and 465 (forgery). The fraudulent practices resulted in losses to the State exchequer and likewise disadvantaged the rights of real beneficiaries. The police are additionally gathering the small print of the bogus beneficiaries for additional investigations.
