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A day after TOI reported about the alleged PDS scam where a dealer in Agra’s Nibohra village had been distributing subsidized foodgrain to an estimated 3,500 non-existent beneficiaries with names drawn from classic Bollywood songs, fruits and vegetables and items of everyday use, the husband of the village pradhan filed a written complaint against the dealer, Padam Singh. Meanwhile, the sub-divisional magistrate has ordered a tabulation of the losses incurred by the government in the scam.

AGRA: In a scam nearly unbelievable in its brazenness, a public distribution system (PDS) dealer in Agra district had been allegedly distributing subsidized foodgrain to an estimated 3,500 non-existent beneficiaries with names drawn from classic Bollywood songs, fruits and vegetables and items of everyday use. Padam Singh, the accused PDS shop owner, had created ration cards for at least 350 ghost families in Nibohra village of Fatehabad tehsil. Some of the names are from the Bollywood song ‘Teri Galiyon Me Naa Rakhenge Kadam’ from the 1974 movie ‘Hawas’. According to copies of the government ration cards obtained by TOI, ‘Teri’ is the mother of ‘Galiyon’, while ‘Rakhenge Kadam’ is a son of ‘Me Naa’ and ‘Aaj’ is the father of ‘Ke Baad’. Similarly, ‘Nagin’ is the mother of ‘Nach’, while ‘Tumse Milne’ is a mother of ‘Naa Aayenge’. Another ration card revealed that Manohar Singh, a 55-year-old bachelor, was the head of a family in which ‘Aalu’ was the father of ‘Loki’, ‘Bhindi’ mother of ‘Baigan’, ‘Badam’ father of ‘Pistaa’, ‘Naariyal’ son of ‘Akharot’ and ‘Supaari’ father of ‘Long’ (sic). All these ghost identities have allegedly been sold government subsidised food for the last two years by Padam Singh. Bhagwan (who goes by his first name), husband of Nibohra’s pradhan Kamla Devi, exposed the scam. “We found nearly 3,500 ghost identities using which Padam Singh was siphoning off PDS rations and duping the villagers. For the last two years, not a single resident of Nibohra has received even a grain of PDS foodgrain from his shop. After the change in government, the local administration has cancelled his dealership, but no action has been taken against him,” Bhagwan told TOI on Monday. Bhagwan has led a solo struggle to convince the authorities to take action. Singh had been running the dealership for the past five years. “In 2014, his licence to distribute rations was cancelled, but by the end of that year, he was reinstated with the recommendation of the then Fatehabad MLA. We had complained to the police at that time, but an inspector had ignored the complaint. These fake ration cards were created since then,” Bhagwan alleged. "Last Friday (March 24) an inspection team was set to arrive to examine the allegations we had made against Padam Singh, for hoarding and selling the subsidised rations at a higher rate in the market, but they didn’t arrive. The same night, we caught Padam Singh red-handed loaded three trucks with PDS items at his shop to transport them elsewhere. After we informed the police, the trucks were seized,” Bhagwan added. Fatehabad sub-divisional magistrate Vandita Srivastav said, “We had been receiving complaints against Singh for several months, but couldn’t take action because of the hectic workload around election time. But now we have terminated his licence after he failed to explain the anomalies in the ration cards. We will take more stringent action once our investigation establishes how much money he made from the scam. We have also suspended the police inspector who ignored the previous complaints against Singh.” Read this story in Telugu

CHANDIGARH: An apple trader in Sector 26 grain market alleged that a Gujarat-based trader did not give payment worth Rs 18 lakh to him to whom he had delivered apples in multiple supplies. Victim Harish Kharbanda, a shopowner in the market, alleged that he made more than 10 deliveries to the Gujarat-based trader. While payment for half of them was made on time but now payment for more than five deliveries is pending allegedly with four persons Rajesh, Padam, Bharat and Krishan Kant, all residents of Gujarat, who did not make payments of Rs 18,23,080. A case under section 420 (cheating) and 120-B (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the IPC has been registered in Sector 26 police station. SHO Jaspal Singh, said, “We will take the legal opinion and investigate the matter accordingly.”

SHIMLA: Bilaspur MLA of the Congress Bumbar Thakur is finding himself in trouble once again, this time for the alleged involvement of his son in a clash in which three youths were injured. Angry locals on Saturday held a massive protest in Bilaspur against police inaction and release of others involved in the clash on bail. During the protest police resorted to cane charge when an angry mob damaged the cars of those alleged to be involved in the thrashing of three youths. Following this, on Sunday, a case was registered at Sadar police station on a complaint of ASI Padam Dev, who alleged that some local residents had damaged the window panes of a bus of the quick reaction team and rolled down two cars at Diara sector in Bilaspur. Sources said that on Thursday night, Rohit Soni, Ankit Tandon and Manish Thakur were attacked by around six-seven persons. In this attack, Soni received head injuries while Ankit and Manish were seriously injured. On the complaint of family members of the injured youths, a case was registered against six persons. Certain locals alleged that in the attack the MLA’s son was also involved but the police did not take any action against him. Owing to this, the demonstration was held, which further led to tension in the area. People also smashed some cars following police action. While Thakur could not be contacted, BJP state president Satpal Singh Satti said that Congress leaders in the state had crossed all limits of hooliganism. He claimed that everybody knew about the involvement of the MLA’s son in the incident but still the police did not take any action. “Efforts are being made to save the MLA’s son,” he claimed. He added that earlier the MLA was involved in a spat with a divisional forest officer and a doctor but the state government refrained from taking any action against him at that time also.

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In July 2012, when Padam Singh bid adieu to Mayawati after serving as her personal security officer for nearly 17 odd years, he took along a bunch of 'rakhis' the BSP chief had been tying on his wrist.

In July 2012, when Padam Singh bid adieu to Mayawati after serving as her personal security officer (PSO) for nearly 17 years, he took with him a bunch of ‘rakhis’ the BSP chief had been tying on his wrist. “I always protected her like my sister,’’ recalled Singh.