India, June 5 -- Social activist Anjali Damania on Wednesday appeared before the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and submitted evidence regarding alleged fraud in the state agricultural department when it was headed by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Dhananjay Munde.

The activist alleged a Rs.161-crore fraud in the department between July 2023 and November 2024, when Munde was a minister in the previous Mahayuti government.

"We recorded her statement for around four hours," said an ACB official.

Damania alleged that despite a central government directive in 2016 to transfer money directly to farmers' bank accounts via Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), the agricultural department purchased equipment and fertilisers at inflated rates f...