Summary:
Those arrested were identified as Lucknow ration shop owner Mohammad Amir Khan, his brother Mohammad Altamash and Mainpuri resident Pushpendra Pal. There they would change the Aadhaar number of a beneficiary with the Aadhaar of someone present there physically, make the transaction using the thumb print of that person, and then change the Aadhaar number to the original one,” he added. In Augu st, the food and civil supplies department had registered 22 FIRs after an inquiry exposed the alleged fraud. During investigation, we got details of transactions in which a single Aadhaar number was used to take out ration more than once a month. STF officials said over 1.8 lakh fraudulent transactions of food grains with market value of more than Rs 20 crore were made from May to July this year..