KANPUR: 9 financial institution managers, three crop insurance coverage staffers, and 32 farmers – 14 of them landless – have been booked after Rs 68 lakh was fraudulently transferred to 35 “landless” farmers as compensation for crop losses in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad district in violation of Prime Minister’s Crop Insurance coverage Scheme (PMCIS) guidelines.Deputy director (agriculture) filed two FIRs. The case pertains to the 2024 Rabi season, throughout which HDFC Ergo had insured crops of 8,849 farmers. When the crops had been broken, the insurance coverage firm paid claims price Rs 2.28 crore to 232 farmers.This included funds of Rs 4 lakh every to a number of landless farmers. District Justice of the Peace Ashutosh Kumar Dwivedi ordered a probe into the landholdings of farmers who obtained insurance coverage compensation above Rs 1 lakh. The next probe performed by the naib tehsildar, kanungo, and ADO (agriculture) revealed the 35 farmers didn’t personal any land on the places talked about within the insurance coverage declare information.In Balipatti Rani gram panchayat in Amritpur tehsil, out of 15 farmers who obtained crop insurance coverage claims, 14 had no land. These 14 farmers had been paid Rs 24.89 lakh. One farmer, who owned solely 0.026 hectare, was given Rs 2,57,160 as a substitute of Rs 2,228.