Fraudsters in Gurugram now targetting successful govt schemes

Gurugram: A complaint has been registered by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development at Gurugram's Shivaji Nagar police station, which states that fraudsters posing as government officials are duping people by misusing the successful 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' scheme.

The scheme – which was started by the Central government to protect the girl child – requires people to register the birth of a girl child at the public office.

This record then allows the office to measure the progress in the sex ratio of the district.

Lately, it has come to the notice of the government officials that there are various fraudsters who promise thousands of people that if they fill a form, which is fake, and send it to the Ministry, they would get Rs 2 lakh for each girl child.

A case of cheating under Section 420 of the IPC was registered against unidentified persons at Shivaji Nagar police station in this regard.

An Ministry official, who filed the complaint, told police that this fraud had assumed a very serious proportion and had spread across the state.

He said that initially complaints were received from Haryana and forms were also posted from this state. Now, the menace has spread to two other states.

Recently, another case of fraud was reported from the government office in Gurugram, where it came as a rude shock for hundreds of salaried working class people that the amount deducted from the salary for the employee provident fund was not being deposited, but was embezzled.

What came as a bigger shock was that the computer operator charged of theft was working in the Gurugram Deputy Commissioner's office in the district Mini Secretariat.

Acting on the the Deputy Commissioner's complaint at Shivaji Nagar police station, cops arrested the computer operator Omveer.