Overview
- Police arrested Tomar on Thursday from her home in Gwalior and, after a court hearing, lodged her in the women’s jail in Shivpuri.
- Investigators say about Rs 2–2.56 crore meant for 794 flood-hit families in Baroda tehsil was redirected into roughly 127 bogus or unrelated bank accounts.
- Offences for cheating, forgery, criminal breach of trust, and criminal conspiracy have been registered under the IPC along with the Prevention of Corruption Act.
- The FIR names more than 100 accused, and police say 22–25 patwaris have been arrested so far in what they describe as an organized manipulation of beneficiary lists.
- A tehsildar oversees local land and relief records, and the case highlights weak checks in how patwaris prepare beneficiary data that tehsil offices then process for payouts.