With the arrest of five persons, The Delhi Police on Sunday claimed to have busted a syndicate of fake tele-callers who have duped several people across India on pretext of facilitating new insurance and refund of amount to the dormant insurance policies.
The accused are identified as Shekhar Tyagi (25) resident of Baghpat (UP), Neeraj (25), Tanvir (28) residents of Faridabad, Amit Kumar Kundu (28) resident of Panipat and Sandeep Kumar (29) resident of Khajuri Khas in New Delhi.
“We have registered a First Information Report (FIR) in which the complainant alleged that he had transferred around Rs 1 crore into bank accounts of various tele-calling companies for their services of facilitating refund of amount of his dormant insurance policies. But neither amount of dormant insurance policies was refunded nor was the amount transferred into the accounts of these tele-callers returned,” said Antono Alphanso, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Dwarka district.
“Acting on the FIR, call detail records of the complainant were scanned which led to the apprehension of one of the accused Shekhar Tyagi. On the instance of Tyagi four more accused were also arrested. During investigation it was also revealed that the accused have opened fake companies and bank accounts. Once the money was transferred they used to withdraw the money from the account through ATM,” the DCP added. “We have seized two cars, ATM cards, cheque books, two rubber stamps, registration papers of companies. Further investigation is going on,” said the DCP.