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EOW Arrests 2 Brothers For Pocketing Rs 6.81 Crore Farmers’ Subsidy In Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) here has arrested two brothers for allegedly misappropriating subsidy of farmers amounting to Rs 6.81 crore.

The accused brothers are Manas Ranjan Dash, Director of Sheetal Agro Inputs Pvt Ltd, and Tapas Kumar Dash, proprietor of Mishita Enterprises. The companies are located in Purohitpur, Taradapada and Jagatsinghpur.

The EOW probe found that Sheetal Agro Inputs Pvt Ltd is registered with Odisha government’s Agriculture department under Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme as a manufacturing firm of agro implements. During 2018-19 and 2019-20, Manas Ranjan Dash allegedly, in active connivance with eight dealers including Mishita Enterprises, uploaded fake invoices/data/information over supply/sale of 504 transplanters to farmers in 19 districts, including Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Balasore, Khurda, Kalahandi and Sambalpur, and managed to avail subsidy of over Rs 6.81 crore under the DBT scheme.

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