A youth running a bank's customer service point was arrested for his alleged role in the Taruner Swapna grant scam from Siliguri on Wednesday.
Rabindra Prasad Singh, whose family is from Kishanganj in Bihar but who worked in Chopra, North Dinajpur, was picked up by a Burdwan Sadar police team from Siliguri's Debidanga.
Sources said that recently, a case was registered at the Burdwan Sadar police station related to the theft of state grants meant for higher secondary students of state-run and state-aided high schools to buy smartphones and tablets for digital learning under the Taruner Swapna scheme.
Under Taruner Swapna, the Mamata government allocates a one-time sum of ₹10,000 to every HS student.
“The police found Singh's involvement and tracked him down,” said Sudip Roy Basunia, the additional public prosecutor, adding a team from Pradhannagar police assisted Burdwan Sadar police.
Singh ran a customer service point of a bank in Chopra from where the grant was sent to bank accounts other than that of students.
As the scam surfaced, Singh fled from Chopra to Debidanga.
On Thursday, he was produced in a local court, which ordered he be taken to Burdwan on transit remand.