The Kinjirikela police in Sundargarh district on Friday arrested and court-forwarded a woman lIC agent for allegedly cheating 47 policyholders of Rs 7 lakh.
As per the FIR filed by the policyholders, Nilima Bilung (28) has not at all deposited premiums, which amount to Rs 7 lakh, they had given to her in the last six years. Nilima resides along with her parents in Humrei village under the Kinjrikela police station.
The policyholders stated that Nilima had persuaded them to purchase various policy products of the lIC, and she won their trust by giving first premium receipts to them in time. They also did not suspect her as they received policy bonds subsequently, the policyholders explained in the FIR.
Thereafter Nilima had been collecting premium amounts regularly. As she continued to take pleas against non supply of receipts, some of them recently went to the lIC, Sundargarh Branch office and enquired about their policy status.
They were astonished to see that no premiums expect the first ones had been deposited in their respective policy accounts.
“Nilima has been arrested and forwarded to court under IPC Section 420,” said Kinjrikela PS SI Bideshi Bag.