What happened
Amita Singh Tomar, a tehsildar posted in Vijaypur, Sheopur district, became a household name after winning ₹50 lakh on Amitabh Bachchan's Kaun Banega Crorepati. Fast forward to 2026, and she's been arrested from her Gwalior residence for her starring role in a ₹2.5 crore flood relief scam. The scheme was elegant in its audacity: out of 794 flood-affected people identified in Baroda tehsil, relief funds were quietly redirected into 127 fake bank accounts. The operation allegedly involved 25 revenue officials and over 100 intermediaries — basically a small government department dedicated to stealing from disaster victims. Both the MP High Court and the Supreme Court rejected her anticipatory bail before she was picked up on March 26. From hot seat to jail seat.