19 Held in Chhattisgarh for Faking Snakebite Deaths

Nineteen persons, including a doctor, two home guards, and a lawyer, have been arrested in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district for allegedly orchestrating a scam by forging post-mortem reports to claim snakebite compensation and siphoning off lakhs, police said on Tuesday. 

The syndicate fabricated medical and revenue documents, fraudulently securing Rs 64 lakh in government relief under the Revenue Book Circular 6-4 scheme for natural and other causes of death, Bilaspur



Senior Superintendent of Police Rajnesh Singh said.

According to the investigation, each member of the racket played distinct roles to execute the fraud between November 2019 and February 2024. Police have so far registered 16 FIRs at Sarkanda, Civil Lines, Koni, City Kotwali, Sirgitti and Torwa police stations in Bilaspur, and arrested 19 people over the past few days, while efforts are underway to apprehend the remaining members of the syndicate, Singh said.