With the arrest of six people, the Delhi Police on Monday claimed to have busted a gang of cheats who had duped senior citizens of Rs 2 crore posing as RBI, Income Tax officials and promising huge bonus on their existing insurance policy.
The gang had recently duped retired CPWD engineer who had served in India, Nepal and libya, of Rs 80.5 lakh on promosing to get the payment of his old upaid insurance released.
The arrested have been identified as Devender Kumar, Sonu Giri, Rohit Kumar Mishra, Manish Thakur and Vishal Verma.
Police said that accused persons procured all concerned data of insurance policy of victims including their contact numbers during their job in call centers related to Insurance Company.
“They used to call customers and used to induce them to deposit money as refundable Income Tax in bank accounts... Once the victim deposits the money, they further induced the victim stating that his dividend on Insurance Policy had been increased. Hence customer had to deposit the increased income tax,” said a senior police official.