India, Sept. 8 -- Over three months after the Chhattisgarh and Delhi police arrested a couple for cheating hundreds of vendors of Rs.50-100 crore across a dozen states, the Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing is now probing a larger scam led by the couple. They dupe people in the name of assigning government tenders.

According to the police, Ratnakar Upadhyay, 40, and Anita Upadhyay, 35, have properties in Delhi-NCR and other states.

Investigators aware of the matter said the couple was first nabbed by Chhattisgarh Police in May 2025. The two, along with their associates, purportedly run an NGO Rashtriya Gramin Saksharta Mission (RGSM). Police said the accused showed RGSM as a subsidiary under the education ministry and even forged le...