KOTA: Acting on a complaint, Kota police busted an inter-state gang of fake
insurance agents who extorted lakhs of rupees from people on the promise of sanctioning huge amount of loan on their insurance policies. Police arrested three youths who were produced before the court on Thursday. The court ordered to send them to five-day police remand.
The three accused identified as
Deepak Babu Nat (27), Chandrabhan Singh (27), both residents of Auraiya district in UP, and Ajay Baghal (26), a resident of Ghaziabad, were arrested from Auraiya and Noida areas of UP. They were produced before the court on Thursday that sent them to five days' police remand, said
Munindra Singh, SHO,
Vigyannagar police station of Kota city.
The trio had extorted lakhs of rupees from their victims by making false promises of sanctioning huge loan amount on their insurance policies, Singh said.
Posing as agents of insurance company, the accused would make random calls to people and get details of their insurance policies. Then they lured them on the pretext of sanctioning huge loan amount on their policies, he further said.
The accused would ask these people to deposit amount in lakhs as formalities for loan proceedings, he added.
The accused led flashy lives. They befriended girls and used their bank accounts for depositing the amount extorted from the victims, he said.
Abdul Rahim Khan, a resident of Vigyannagar police station area, lodged a complaint earlier this month alleging that he was duped of lakhs of rupees by fake insurance agents on the promise of sanctioning loan of Rs 2.5 crore on his insurance policy, the SHO said.
Following the complaint, a special team was constituted to investigate the matter. Through call and bank account details, the police team succeeded in nabbing the accused, he added.
During initial interrogation, the accused admitted having duped Ashwini Gunjan Property Dealer (Mumbai) of Rs 15 lakh,
Ramesh Chand (Bijnor) of Rs 10 lakh, Rakesh Sharma, a businessman (Meerut), of Rs 13 lakh, Leena Choudhary (Agra) of Rs 3 lakh and Jitendra, a businessman (Meerut), of Rs 1 lakh, the SHO said.
No cash amount has been recovered from the accused so far, however, interrogation with them is underway.
