Gautam Deb nabs youth at Duare Sarkar camp- the youth was allegedly filling up forms for applicants against cash.

The corporation has been organising the camp at Shiumangal Memorial High School at Ektiasal in ward 40

Gautam Deb: File picture

TT  |   Siliguri, Jalpaiguri   |  20.08.21: Gautam Deb, chairperson of the board of administrators of Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Thursday nabbed a youth from the premises of a high school where a Duare Sarkar camp was on and the youth was allegedly filling up forms for applicants against cash.

The corporation has been organising the camp at Shiumangal Memorial High School at Ektiasal in ward 40.

Deb reached the school to find the youth collecting cash from applicants, mostly from prospective beneficiaries of “Lakshmir Bhandar (a monthly cash benefit scheme for women)”, in lieu of filling up their forms.  

Deb nabbed him red-handed. His security men handed the youth over to the police.

“I am personally monitoring all these camps running under the borough offices of the SMC. I caught the youth who was doing such an act,” Deb said.

In a similar incident, a woman was arrested for collecting money from applicants at another camp at a school in Rajganj block of neighbouring Jalpaiguri. District magistrate Moumita Godara Basu said that at  the Rajganj Bandar Junior High School camp, the woman from Belakoba was filling up forms and asking for money in exchange. A Rajganj police team arrested her.

Some residents of Phansidewa block of Siliguri subdivision on Thursday alleged that some youths were filling up forms at a Duare Sarkar” camp at Chathat High School against money. A police team reached the school but by then the youths had fled. Police seized some documents from the spot.