Srijan scam: Four more FIRs lodged

PATNA: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has lodged four new FIRs against government,

bank

and

NGO

officials in connection with the multi-crore Srijan scam. With this, the number of FIRs lodged in this connection has gone up to 14.


The new FIRs were registered on Tuesday. Sources said the central investigating agency had so far detected fraudulent transfer of funds to the tune of over Rs 1,500 crore from bank accounts of state government departments to the accounts of NGO Srijan Mahila Vikas Ewan Sahyog Samiti.

The scam was initially unearthed in Bhagalpur, where the NGO is headquartered, in August last year, but it later turned out similar withdrawals had been made in other districts of Bihar as well.

The NGO was founded by one Manorama Devi in the 1990s. After her death in February last year, her daughter-in-law Priya Kumar helmed the NGO. Priya and her husband were yet to be arrested.

One of the FIRs lodged on Tuesday has named as accused ex-Banka district land acquisition officer Jayshree Thakur and ex-Bank of Baroda (BoB) and Indian Bank (IB) managers.

The accused in the second FIR include the NGO’s office bearers — Shubhluxmi Prasad, Rajni Priya, Seema Devi, Jasima Khatoon, Rajrani Verma, Arpana Verma, Rubi Kumari, Rani Devi, Sunita Devi and Suna Devi.

In the third FIR, the then and current branch managers of BOB’s Ghantaghar branch and IB’s Patal Babu Road branch, both in Bhagalpur, have been made accused.

The accused in the fourth FIR include the then cashier of the BoB’s Ghantaghar branch, the then

Bhagalpur district

welfare officer Arun Kumar and late Bhagalpur nazir Mahesh Mandal.

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