LUCKNOW, Jan. 14 -- Senior treasury officials who held charge between 2018 and 2023 in Chitrakoot, when Rs 43.13 crore was fraudulently transferred into 93 pension accounts in name of arrears and remained undetected till October 6, 2025, have been issued show cause notices. Those who have been issued the notices include a senior treasury officer, an assistant treasury officer, and two other officials along with a retired assistant treasury official. "Out of the total Rs 43.13 crore, we have been able to recover over Rs 4-crore till now," said VK Singh, special secretary, department of finance, and director, treasury. The investigation into the scam so far has revealed that the scamsters used fake life certificates and manipulated records to transfer excess funds into 93 pension accounts. Despite annual audits over the past seven years, embezzlement of pension funds worth Rs.43.13 crore from the Chitrakoot treasury went undetected between August 3, 2018 and October 6, 2025. The large-scale fraud came to fore after a special audit team from the accountant general's office carried out an unannounced inspection between October 6 and 10 last year....