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The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to link the details of the newly-wed couples with DBT and Aadhaar to prevent any repeat of the fraud committed in Ballia in the Chief Minister's Mass Marriage Scheme in which 240 ineligible people enrolled themselves to derive benefits, state Social Welfare Minister Asim Arun said on Sunday..
The government will give marriage certificates to couples on the spot in the programme to stop the repeat of the fraud, he said.. "Marriage certificate will be given on the spot itself..
He said a complaint was received in Ballia about 537 marriages having taken place with some couples having got married a few months ago..
On the complaint of District Social Welfare Officer Deepak Srivastava, a case was registered at Maniyar police station on Tuesday against Assistant Development Officer of Social Welfare Department Sunil Kumar Yadav (who has been suspended) and eight beneficiaries - Archana, Ranjana Yadav and Suman Chauhan of Manikapur village; and Priyanka, Sonam, Pooja, Sanju and Ramita of Sultanpur village...
Among the 15 arrested, the name of Assistant Development Officer Sunil Kumar Yadav is mentioned in the case registered and the names of 14 others have come to light during the investigation, District Magistrate of Ballia Ravindra Kumar had earlier said.. "Two assistant development officers - Sunil Kumar Yadav and Bhanu Pratap of the Social Welfare department - have been arrested along Ravindra Gupta, Alok Srivastav, Upendra Yadav, Deepak Chauhan, Mukesh Kumar Gupta, Ramji Chauhan, Santosh Yadav, Arjun Verma, Ramnath, Acchelal Verma, Dharmendra Yadav, Gulab Yadav and Sarabjeet Singh of the Social Welfare department," Ravindra Kumar had earlier said...
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