Bengal Tablet Fund Fraud: Primary school teacher arrested, 120 FIRs registered so far, says Police

A primary school teacher was arrested by the Malda cyber crime police on Saturday in connection with a large-scale online fraud involving the state government’s ‘Taruner Swapno’ scheme.

Police said that the arrested accused, Manojit Burman, a resident of Dinhata and a teacher at a primary school in Sitai block, is suspected of being involved in a cybercrime ring that siphoned off funds meant for students to purchase tablets. This takes the total number of arrests in the case to 14.