Chhattisgarh Rs 17 crore snakebite scam: How doctors, lawyers, clerks and bank employees faked deaths in Bilaspur

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Chhattisgarh Snakebite Scam: Police in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, have arrested seventeen individuals in a large compensation fraud. This syndicate allegedly rewrote death certificates to claim government aid for snakebite victims. The fraudulent scheme, active since 2018, has defrauded the state of over seventeen crore rupees. Officials and medical professionals are implicated in this elaborate and ongoing investigation. Further arrests are anticipated as the police continue to unravel the network.