Three men have been arrested by the Delhi Police Crime Branch who cheated hundreds of people across India on the pretext of offering bonus money on lapsed insurance policies. The accused claimed that they were linked with various Government departments. Police on Wednesday said they have identified 34 fake email IDs registered in the name of government authorities.
The accused claimed that through this method they earned lakhs every month. The accused has been identified as Dushyant (25), Swetraj Jha (26) and Shiv Narayan Singh (30). Police said the three men were running a call center for more than a year.
"Since all of them had experience of working at call centres, they used to approach people asking them to invest money to get a refund on the lapsed policies. The cops have identified around 32 bank accounts through which the accused used to receive the money," said Bhisham Singh, DCP (Crime). Singh said, "We received a complaint from a Ludhiana based senior citizen who claimed that he has been cheated of Rs 68 lakh. As per the complainant, he had stopped depositing premium for his insurance policy in a Life Insurance company after three annual premiums of Rs 15,000/- each, so his insurance policy lapsed."
The DCP said, "While he was living in Pitampura in 2016, he got a call from a private firm saying that the company has invested Rs 30,000 of the lapsed police in some foreign company. The company claimed that his policy amount has doubled to Rs 16.5 lakh and asked him to deposit Rs 4 lakh in a bank account as processing fees."
The complainant further told police that the he used to get calls from the company where they impersonated as officials belonging to the Finance Ministry of India, office of the Punjab Chief Minister, RBI and President of India office. In this way the accused cheated Rs 68 lakh from him.
"A team under ACP Crime Branch scanned the mobile as well as the bank records and managed to trace the accused to Ghaziabad. During sustained interrogation, the accused told police that Dushyant is the mastermind of the gang. To earn quick money, the three started their own call centre to cheat people. The accused further disclosed that they took a flat on rent at the Raj Nagar Extension in Ghaziabad," said Singh.