CM’s Anila Bhagya scheme: One lakh to get benefit in next two months
Bengaluru, July 24: The state government has decided to distribute gas cylinder, stove and regulators to one lakh beneficiaries under CM’s Anila Bhagya scheme in the next two months.
It was decided in the meeting chaired by Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy at the Vidhana Soudha here on Tuesday to distribute this facility to 32 lakh beneficiaries identified under this scheme in the next four years. In the current year, it was decided to cover around 10 lakh beneficiaries and in next two months, one lakh kits would be distributed, for which the central government has agreed and one lakh kits were already purchased, according to officials.
The government has decided to conduct programmes in district and taluk levels to distribute the kits. Under the central government’s Ujjwala scheme, 23 lakh beneficiaries were identified and cylinders were given for 9 lakh beneficiaries under this scheme, the officers said.
Food and Civil Supplies department Minister BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan, Social Welfare Minister Priyanka Kharge and Labour Minister Venkataramanappa and senior officers were present at the meeting.
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Three company directors held in Rs 100-crore investment fraud in Kochi
Kochi (Kerala) (PTI): Police on Sunday arrested three directors of a firm accused of cheating hundreds of investors of over Rs 100 crore through a fake investment scheme linked to agricultural tourism here, officials said.
The accused were identified as Muraleedharan, Ashik Murali and Akhil Murali, all natives of Thrissur.
The arrests were made by the Kalamassery police in connection with a fraud involving ATCOS (Agri Tourism Cooperative Society), a firm headquartered at Pathadipalam here.
Police said the company had promised high returns by collecting investments from the public in the agricultural tourism sector, but allegedly cheated hundreds of people and fled with the money.
ATCOS was registered under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act and operated 13 branches across various districts in Kerala, besides a branch in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, officials said.
When investors failed to receive their promised returns or the invested amount, complaints were filed with the police.
Officials said around 54 cases have been registered against the firm in 32 police stations across the state, including 29 cases at the Kalamassery police station alone.
Following instructions from Kochi City Police Commissioner K S Mahesh Kumar, a special investigation team was formed under the supervision of Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Shehensha and Thrikkakara ACP Manoj Kumar.
The team traced the accused to an apartment in Amala Nagar in Thrissur, where they had been hiding after secretly renting the flat, officials said.
The bank accounts of the accused have been frozen, and steps have been initiated to trace their assets, officials said.
Police also conducted a raid at the company’s office at Pathadipalam and seized several documents related to the case.
The accused were produced before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Kalamassery, which remanded them to judicial custody and sent them to Kakkanad jail.
Police said they would seek the custody of the accused for further interrogation as the investigation continues.
