New Delhi, May 2 -- The Anti Corruption Branch of Delhi have arrested nine people, including owners and directors of three coaching institutes, for allegedly producing fake student documents to take Rs.37 crore from the government under Jai Bhim Mukhyamantri Pratibha Vikas Yojana from 2018 to 2021, officials said on Friday.

The ACB saidmore than 22,000 students and 43 coaching centres were enrolled on paper under the scheme started by the previous Aam Aadmi government in 2018-19, but there were major discrepancies.

According to the ACB, a team under assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Jarnail Singh received a complaint from Delhi government's department of SC/ST welfare in August last year after an audit of the discontinued scheme. ...