The in-charge at the Assembly of God Church School in Ranchi has been suspended. (Express Photo: Abhishek Angad)
INSIDE THEIR unplastered two-room house in the dense Behratoli area of Ranchi, Rashid Ansari, a mason, and his wife Salma Khatun, are badly shaken. They have just come to know from this reporter that the “charity money from Saudi Arabia”, of Rs 10,700 each that came into their accounts, was part of a statewide scam targeting a national scholarship scheme for minority school students.
And that they are among several unsuspecting victims defrauded by a nexus of middlemen, bank staff, school authorities, and state government…
