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Barpeta, Nov 2: A fake student racket collecting Ishan-Uday and scholarships for minorities illegally has been busted by the Barpeta police. The racket fraudulently extorted large sums of money impersonated as students of some colleges in the state.
The Barpeta police have arrested two accused for their involvement in the Ishan Uday Scholarship scam. The two arrested accused have been identified as Zeherul Islam and Habibur Rahman.
The two arrested accused were lodged in Jaharpam village of Barpeta.
The police investigated the area and arrested the two suspects who had fraudulently taken the student’s scholarship money.
Barpeta Additional Superintendent of Police, Dr Pradeep Saikia, informed the reporters about the whole scam in a press conference.
It is worth noting that the students who pass the High School Examination with 75 percent will get the Ishan-Uday scholarship of Rs 60,000 per year. Also, the ministry of manpower development of the central government also gives meritorious students from minority communities an opportunity to study in some educational institutions outside the state.
The racket was using passwords and OTPs of some colleges in the state and also to forge signatures of college principals by writing names of fake students.
It may be recalled that since 2018, the two accused have fraudulently withdrawn crores of rupees of Ishan Uday Scholarship in the names of Barpeta and Bongaigaon College, Baniyarapara College, Koyakusi College, Harendra-Chitra College, and CK College in Abhayapuri.
In the past few years, there have been calls for stricter punishment in the region to eradicate the recurring crime in the region, but there has been no strong action taken by the administration.
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