India, Sept. 23 -- A man, posing as an IAS officer, was arrested for allegedly duping several vendors of more than '2 crore across the country under the guise of the Centre's Rashtriya Gramin Saksharta Mission (RGSM) scheme by luring them with fake tenders for supplying school uniforms to underprivileged children.
The accused, identified as Saurabh Singh, an office bearer of the fake trust, was arrested from Lucknow on September 15 following sustained surveillance and raids in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. His associates - Ratnakar alias Karunakar Upadhyay and Anita Upadhyay - were arrested in July.
"According to investigators, the accused created a trust and a website resembling a government scheme, published fake tenders and even used forged...