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West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari connected Monday (June 1, 2026) said helium has asked the State Director General of Police (DGP) to signifier a peculiar probe squad (SIT) to probe into alleged fake accounts of Lakshmir Bhandar, a women's currency transportation strategy of the erstwhile Trinamool Congress (TMC) government.
Addressing a property league astatine the State secretariat Nabanna successful Kolkata, Mr. Adhikari said that a wealth laundering probe volition besides beryllium conducted into the substance arsenic it involves amerciable currency transfers.
The Chief Minister besides said it was recovered that men had availed of the women's fiscal assistance strategy during the erstwhile TMC government.
"Around 30 lakh Lakshmir Bhandar accounts are fake. I person asked the manager wide of constabulary to signifier an SIT to analyse the matter," the Chief Minister said.
He said that those who are questioning the 12-page verification signifier for the caller BJP government's Annapurna Bhandar yojana, wherever the fiscal assistance to a pistillate beneficiary volition beryllium accrued to ₹3,000 per month, should instrumentality into relationship the instances of illegalities noticed successful the erstwhile Lakshmir Bhandar scheme.
Some men person already been arrested for obtaining benefits of the payment strategy by mode of mendacious claims, Mr. Adhikari said.
"We volition interruption these illegalities astatine the grassroots level," helium said. The Chief Minister said that Annapurna Bhandar benefits volition beryllium released to a ample fig of women beneficiaries connected Wednesday (June 3, 2026).
