Five months after the cooperative society scam had been reported from Loharan in Bhogpur, victims who lost the huge amount of money in the scam are still awaiting justice, reports The Tribune from Jalandhar.
The daily reports that while the Cooperative Department was yet to resolve the case of Rs 70-lakh Loharan multipurpose cooperative society scam at Bhogpur, another society from Bhogpur, the Cooperative Agricultural Society Pachranga had been hit by a whopping Rs 85-lakh scam.
The secretary of the Cooperative Agricultural Society Pachranga, who is accused of committing the huge scam, had recently got posted at Loharan multipurpose cooperative society.
One of the officials from the Cooperative Department said the accused secretary was posted at the Loharan society to look into the accounts and records properly, which were embezzled by the former secretary, who is now lodged in the jail.