Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's rule is increasing the figure of the scam from the bank and NGO coalition. It has been found in the investigation that now the scam has increased to Rs 343 crore.

NGO Srijan Women Development Cooperation Committee Limited of Bhagalpur is in charge of the allegations. Meanwhile, NGO secretary and her husband are absconding.

However, the police arrested seven people in the case. It is alleged that fake bank accounts of Indian banks, Bank of Baroda and Treasury have been made.

Now the case of fake withdrawal of Rs 48 crore has also come to the Cooperative Bank. In this regard, FIR has been lodged in Kotwali police station on Friday. In this regard, the total loss of Rs 343 crore has been caused by the Bihar government. Earlier, the matter of 295 crore scandal came to light.

IG Jitendra Singh Gangwar of Economic Crime Branch, who has been entrusting the investigation in Bhagalpur from Patna, has registered three FIRs and has reported a loss of Rs 295 crore. According to Gangwar, seven people have been arrested so far.

It is believed that they included Prem Kumar, assistant of Bhagalpur's DM AadeshTitiramare.

The IG said that the arrested people include District Nazarat, Land Acquisition Department and bank officials and the Srijan NGO Manager.

IG said that names will be exposed soon.

The IG came with five officers on Wednesday from Bhagalpur from airplane. After intensive investigations and interrogation of three days, before going to Patna on Friday, he gave the information of the investigation to the journalists in the Circuit House.

IG Gangwar said that this forgery of Bhagalpur was an important scam of embezzlement of government funds and it was being executed for a long time in an organized manner. It was not even disclosed in the audit report of the Accountant General, from 2015 to March 2017. The disclosure of the case came when the bank bounced the cheque issued by the DM on August 4. Then from the bank to the district collectorate there was a stir and the matter could be exposed.

Investigation has come into the connivance between government departments, banks and NGOs. The Economic Crime Branch has succeeded in suppressing the Srijan NGOs who are the master of cyber crime. These people used to update fake statements and passbooks of government bank accounts. Police seized their laptop, printer and other evidence.

However, the police officer says that in the era of core banking, a misstatement with the bank can not be prepared.

On Friday (August 11th), the police raided at DM's assistant Prem Kumar's official residence and detained him. Some essential documents have been recovered from his residence. In the afternoon, the police team went to their Tilakamaji's house to arrest the organization's secretary Priya Kumar and her husband Amit Kumar, but both of them had run away till then.

However, when journalists asked the questions from the IG to increase the scope of investigation and the political conservation of the accused, they silenced. Just said that investigation is going on.

The investigation team under the leadership of ASP Sushil Kumar and Rashid Jama of Economic Offense will camp at Bhagalpur right now.

The team of finance department has also reached from Patna with Bank Transactions, Cyber Expert for cooperation in the investigation. DDC is preparing to send letters to the banks involved in the scandal so that seizure of the amount can be seized. Officers of DGM rank of both the banks (Indian Bank and Bank of Baroda) are camping in Bhagalpur and are conducting internal checks in the bank after putting the team of officials.

SSP Manoj Kumar said that the forensic examination of the signing of the check will also be done. The investigation team is also trying to identify who have taken advantage of the money through cash withdrawal and transfer from Srijan NGO.

IG Gangwar told that in addition to Bhagalpur, other districts also have links to the Srijan organization. Saharsa has also revealed the details of transactions in bank accounts, land investments and cyber crime. There is also being investigated. Meanwhile, Chief Secretary of the state, Anjani Kumar Singh has sent a message to DM of all the districts of Bihar seeking a report of the goodness of government's amount.

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