Did mobile phone shop owner, Aijazullah, avail himself of Shaadi Mubarak scheme benefit by applying in his wife’s name projecting another man as her husband?
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials, who arrested him two days ago, were taken aback when he admitted to have applied for the scheme in his name but posted another man’s photo in his place. “He confessed to this during interrogation but we are yet to secure that particular file,” sources in ACB told The Hindu on Wednesday.
Actually, Aijazullah’s wife was not eligible to avail herself of the one-time financial benefit under the scheme as she got married before October 2, 2014. As per the Government Order, women who married on or after this date are only eligible.
“So he applied with all genuine documents but tampered with the marriage date in the documents and applied in his wife’s name and pocketed the sum,” the investigators said. But he applied for second time in his wife’s name.
In this application, he pasted the photo of another man as his wife’s husband, created fake wedding cards, income certificates and applied. Since he had already colluded with Md. Taheruddin, a senior assistant in Minorities Welfare Department of Ranga Reddy district, the latter cleared the application.
Investigation conducted so far revealed that the duo had siphoned off money in 16 cases of Shaadi Mubarak scheme.
With the help of Wajed, who helps in securing fake documents, they would secure Elector’s Photo Identity Cards from an Internet café in Chandrayanagutta. They ganged up with a woman out-sourced employee of a bank with whose help bank accounts were created.
Aijazullah would take his wife’s sister to the bank and open accounts with different names.
The amount would be withdrawn subsequently after the money is deposited by the Government. This was shared by him with Taheruddin.
