PM Kisan Yojana scam: Tiruchy surfaces in misconduct as the scam gets murkier

Investigations exposes a startling revelation that bank accounts in Tiruchy district too were unduly favoured for the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Yojana.

Of the 1.51 lac beneficiary accounts 15,000 accounts were registered for the scheme after April alone.

The CB-CID led by officer Deepa has started the first leg of investigations, on Saturday.

Such misappropriations have also been said to have taken place in Karur, Perambalur and Kallakurichi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced a scheme disbursing Rs 6000 in three instalments for the farmers for the year.

As an effacement to Tamil Nadu, some 37,000 accounts belonging to those who do not fit the criteria of beneficiaries, had been frozen suspecting to have snitched the relief money.

These accounts belong to Cuddalore alone.

Earlier, smelling a foul play amount to the tune of 4.20 lacs had been seized of the beneficiary funds from the alleged scamsters' accounts.

This action also resulted in suspension of 10 government officials. Alleging a similar case four contract workers were arrested by the CB-CID police in Ulundurpet.