Promising Rs 4 crore, criminals dupe senior citizen of Rs 1.6 crore

JAIPUR: A 63-year-old man living at Rupathal village under Kuchera police station area of Nagaur was cheated of nearly Rs 1.61 crore by conmen in the last eight months. Promising Rs 4 crore as a maturity sum of insurance, the men trapped him. It was also found that the senior citizen had taken loans from acquaintances to fulfil the conmen’s demand .
Police on Monday registered an FIR under appropriate sections of IPC and IT Act and an independent probe into the matter has been initiated.
“In May this year, the complainant Hari Ram Chaudhary got a call from the conman in which he was informed that he had taken an insurance policy which will be matured soon. They claimed that he would be getting nearly Rs 4 crore as the maturity amount. However, he will have to pay the income tax on it before receiving the final cheque,” said Rajpal Singh, station house officer, Kuchera police station told TOI on Tuesday.
Singh added that Chaudhary subscribing to the idea asked them what he was supposed to do to claim the money?
That’s when he was trapped by the criminals. “They also sent him a picture of the cheque having Rs 4 crore to win his confidence. And, thereafter the victim first transferred nearly Rs 1.67 lakh.
After he paid the money, the conmen asked him that there were some more issues with the income tax department, thus he is supposed to pay more,” Singh added while quoting the FIR lodged by the complainant.
According to the police, in the past eight months conmen made several calls to the victim and got nearly Rs 1,61,86,458 from him. “It all started when conmen claiming to be representative of company informed him that he had got an insurance from them and asked his ID proof. Some days after they started telling him about the maturity amount which he would be getting,” Singh added.
However, when the victim got the last call from the cons on December 10 when the conman asked him to pay more money, he got angry and suspicious and the conman disconnected his phone.
“We have registered a case under appropriate sections of IPC and IT Act and an independent investigation is being done in this case,” he added.
Police asked the man as to how he could have more than Rs 1 crore that he had paid to the criminals. “He told that he was so impressed with the idea of the criminals that he had even taken loans from the people of his acquaintances and also kept some of his land on mortgage,” Singh added.