Ballia (UP), Feb. 2:
Fifteen people, including the officers of the Social Welfare department, were arrested here on Thursday in connection with a recent case of fraud in the Chief Minister’s Mass Marriage Scheme, reported Vartha Bharation Thursday, citing police sources.
“Two assistant development officers – Sunil Kumar Yadav and Bhanu Pratap of the Social Welfare department – have been arrested along Ravindra Gupta, Alok Srivastav, Upendra Yadav, Deepak Chauhan, Mukesh Kumar Gupta, Ramji Chauhan, Santosh Yadav, Arjun Verma, Ramnath, Acchelal Verma, Dharmendra Yadav, Gulab Yadav and Sarabjeet Singh of the Social Welfare department,” Ballia District Magistrate (DM) Ravindra Kumar said.
The marriage of young men and women from poor families is being done under the Chief Minister’s Mass Marriage Scheme.
An FIR regarding the matter was registered against the assistant development officer of the Social Welfare department and eight beneficiaries on charges of fraud at the Maniyar police station on Tuesday night on the complaint of District Social Welfare Officer Deepak Srivastava.
Among the 15 arrested, the name of Assistant Development Officer Sunil Kumar Yadav is mentioned…
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