AGARTALA: The crime branch of Tripura Police brought two persons accused of financial fraud on transit remand from Samastipur of Bihar on Sunday and produced them before a local court in West Tripura that sent them to five-day police remand on Monday.
Both of them are allegedly involved in hacking a large number of accounts of beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandhana Yojana (PMMVY) not only in Tripura, but also in other states. The report claimed that they looted about Rs 50 lakh from the beneficiary accounts during the lockdown as soon as the money was transferred from the government accounts.
