The Chandigarh Police has busted a racket of a fake call centre running in Zirakpur.
Six persons have been arrested from the tricity for insurance fraud targeting the senior citizens. During investigation, Rs 4 lakh cash and 30 mobile phones along with SIM cards of different service providers and 10 registers have been recovered from the accused, said a police spokesperson.
The investigation began by the cyber crime investigation cell, UT Police on two separate complaints by city residents. In the first complaint, Nirmal Singh, a resident of Sector 44 stated that he had received a phone call in June 2020 regarding insurance policy. The caller discussed his old insurance policy and informed that Rs 25,000,00 of his insurance policy are balance at their end and if he wants to claim the same amount, he needs to deposit documents fee etc. After this, he deposited Rs 1654000 in different accounts in different banks. Later on, the complainant realized that he has been cheated on the pretext of maturity of insurance policy.Further, one more complaint of similar modus operandi was made by Ajudhya Dass Rajpoot, resident of Sector 42 here regarding fraud of Rs 200000 on the pretext of Reliance Nippon insurance policy maturity.
Cases under Section 419 (punishment for cheating by personation), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy) IPC were registered to apprehend the criminals involved in cheating and insurance fraud, the spokesman said.
During the investigation, accused Yogesh Verma (38), resident of Dhakoli Punjab, Pranav, a resident of Ambala Cantt. Haryana, Manish Kumar Rai, a resident of Mohali Punjab, Subham Bhardwaj, a resident of Mohali, Arjun Yadav, a resident of Panchkula Haryana and Rakesh Kumar, a resident of Mohali have been arrested from the tricity area.
During interrogation, it has been revealed that the accused had set up a call center in Zirakpur and used to target the senior citizens who had purchased insurance policies from different companies and allured them to deposit money on the pretext of the huge amount of maturity of their policies. Accused were produced in court and police remand for three days was obtained, the spokesperson added.