Doctor, home guards among 19 held in Chhattisgarh for faking snakebite deaths, siphoning off lakhs
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 (July 21, 2026). The syndicate fabricated medical and revenue documents, fraudulently securing ₹64 lakh in government…