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CM Relief Fund cheque fraud: Four including staff of ex-health minister office held

The complainant also alleged that the accused by fraudulent way had withdrawn the amounts of some other beneficiaries, police said.

ByPTI

Published Mar 28, 2024 | 10:07 AM ⚊UpdatedMar 28, 2024 | 10:14 AM

CM Relief Fund cheque fraud. (Representational/ iStock)

Four persons including a contract employee at the camp office of a former Telangana minister were arrested in Hyderabad on Wednesday, 27 March, for alleged fraud in giving cheques meant for beneficiaries issued under the Chief Minister Relief Fund (CMRF), police said.

Based on the complaint of a farmer from Medak district on 21 March, a case was registered at Jubilee Hills Police Station in the city under relevant sections of the IPC and IT Act.

Four accused, including the contract-based data entry operator at former Health Minister T Harish Rao’s camp office, a car driver, an attendee, and another person were arrested, they said.

#Hyderabad: Jubilee Hills Police arrests Naresh Kumar former contract-based data entry operator who worked at Ex-Health Minister @BRSHarish‘s office and has cashed Chief Minister’s Relief Fund (CMRF) cheques worth Rs 87,500 of a farmer.

The complainant Patloth Ravi Nayak on…

— South First (@TheSouthfirst) March 27, 2024

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Farmer’s complaint

The farmer Patloth Ravi Nayak in the complaint said he applied for CMRF seeking financial aid in January 2023 after he spent about ₹ five lakh for medical treatment of his wife for a snake bite, who died in November 2022 while undergoing treatment in a hospital here.

The complainant said he followed up on the status of the CMRF and claimed he didn’t get any response.

The farmer further said recently he went to the Secretariat and found that the CMRF was sanctioned through two cheques amounting to ₹50,000 and ₹37,500.

He alleged that the data entry operator, who gives cheques to beneficiaries which the state government issued, gave the cheques to two other persons by “taking commission” and they along with another person encashed them in a bank in Hyderabad after which he complained with the police.

The complainant also alleged that the accused by fraudulent way had withdrawn the amounts of some other beneficiaries, police said.

Meanwhile, a release from Harish Rao’s office said they had lodged a complaint with police in December 2023 after it
came to their notice that the contract employee, without any information had taken away a few CMRF cheques with him and had sought to take the necessary action as per law against him.

మాజీ మంత్రి, ఎమ్మెల్యే హరీశ్ రావు పీఏ సీఎంఆర్ఎఫ్ చెక్కులు కాజేసిండు అనే వార్తతో జరుగుతున్న ప్రచారాన్ని ఖండిస్తున్నాం.

వాస్తవం ఏమిటంటే నరేష్ అనే వ్యక్తి హరీశ్ రావు గారి వద్ద పీఏ కాదు. అతను ఒక కంప్యూటర్ ఆపరేటర్ గా, తాత్కాలిక ఉద్యోగిగా హరీశ్ రావు కార్యాలయంలో పనిచేసే వారు. ఆర్థిక,… pic.twitter.com/eQntRAKBza

— Office of Harish Rao (@HarishRaoOffice) March 27, 2024

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