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Tehsildar Amita Singh Tomar, the woman who won Rs 50 lakh in ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 5’, has been arrested. When Amita won Rs 50 lakh, Amitabh had expressed happiness and also wished her all the best for her future. Celebrations of Amita’s victory were held all over Madhya Pradesh and she was much talked about, but she got trapped in a scam of Rs 2.5 crore.
Amita Singh Tomar had won Rs 50 lakh in ‘KBC 5’.
Mumbai. Amitabh Bachchan has always clapped for the people who won lakhs and crores of rupees in Kaun Banega Crorepati. Have wished for his good future and blessed him. The winners got their houses built, got treatment done or fulfilled their needs with the money. But a woman who won Rs 50 lakh in ‘KBC 5’ lost even this money. She too is not an ordinary woman, but a Tehsildar. He has been arrested. He is accused of a scam of Rs 2.5 crore. The woman’s name is Amita Singh Tomar
Amita Singh Tomar had won Rs 50 lakh in KBC 5 in the year 2011. Amitabh Bachchan had then asked a question to Amita, who was sitting on the hot seat of KBC 5 – ‘In the war of 1857, who was the commander of the British army who fought against Rani Laxmibai and Tatya Tope in Gwalior?’ For this he was given these four options – A – Hugh Rose, B – Colonel Neal, C – William Hodson and D – John Nicholson.
Amita Singh Tomar thinking about the answer to the question of Rs 50 lakh. (Youtube videograb)
Amita Singh Tomar chose ‘A-Hue Rose’ and won. After winning such a huge amount, his popularity increased in the whole of Gwalior. But in the year 2021, after the flood in Sheopur, Gwalior, he committed a scam of about Rs 2.5 crore from the relief compensation.
According to the Indian Express report, in the government records of Sheopur, 960 farmers in Baroda tehsil were listed as beneficiaries and Rs 24068720 were allotted after the survey. Investigators say a large part of this money did not reach the real beneficiaries, but went into 127 bank accounts that had no connection with the flood victims—these accounts belonged to people from remote towns like Shivpuri and Manpur, and in some cases to relatives of the patwaris who had prepared the compensation lists.
Amita Singh Tomar had resigned from her post in the year 2023. However, he later withdrew his resignation. He had written in his letter, “I have been insulted for the last five years. I thought that when the new collector comes, I will get the charge of the tehsil, but it did not happen.” According to Times Now, Amita worked in different departments for five years, but she was not given any special responsibility. In 2023, she was on the post of Chief Officer looking after land records.
