AGARTALA: The crime branch of Tripura Police brought two persons accused of financial fraud on transit remand from Samastipur of Bihar on Sunday and produced them before a local court in West Tripura that sent them to five-day police remand on Monday.
Both of them are allegedly involved in hacking a large number of accounts of beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandhana Yojana (PMMVY) not only in Tripura, but also in other states. The report claimed that they looted about Rs 50 lakh from the beneficiary accounts during the lockdown as soon as the money was transferred from the government accounts.
According to police, based on an FIR registered at Kailashahar police station of Unokoti district in North Tripura last year, Navneet Kumar and Vinod Kumar were arrested from Samastipur last week in a joint operation of Bihar police and crime branch sleuths of Tripura.
They are accused of hacking the bank accounts of about a hundred of beneficiaries of PMMVY in Unokoti district and cloning them with their accounts. The scheme provides a benefit of Rs 5,000 in three installments to a woman not employed in government sectors for her first living child, as partial compensation for loss of wage during her pregnancy so that she can get proper nutrition.
A senior police official said Navneet and Vinod were part of the bank fraud gang operating across the country.
