Chandigarh, March 26 -- The Haryana State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (SV&ACB) filed a chargesheet against three accused in a Kaithal court for allegedly siphoning off about Rs.45 lakh through forged documents in an infamous "post-matric scholarship scam".

In a statement on Wednesday, the ACB said that the accused-Dharambir, Rajesh Kumar and Naveen Kumar-allegedly orchestrated the fraud by opening fake bank accounts in the names of 91 students during the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic sessions.

In its damning 2018-19 fiscal report and tabled on the floor of Haryana Vidhan Sabha in 2021, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) had reported that suspected fraudulent payments to the tune of multi-crore were released by ma...