Ed: ED attaches college buildings in scholarship scam case | Lucknow News

Lucknow: The ED has provisionally attached properties worth Rs 5.7 crore under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, in connection with a scholarship scam. The attached assets are the college buildings of SS Institute of Management, Bakshi Ka Talab, Lucknow, owned by the SS Group of Institutes. An investigation initiated by the ED based on intelligence revealed that Praveen Chauhan, chairman of the SS Group, along with Ishrat Zafari of Hagia Group of Institutes and his staff, created fake documents for students. They used these documents to fraudulently avail Rs 7.4 crore in scholarships from the govt. Properties worth Rs 1.7 crore have already been attached in this case.

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