ACCUSED CHEATED INNOCENTS ON PRETEXT OF RENEWING SUSPENDED INSURSANCE POLICY, CHEATING CASE INVOLVING RS. 1,94,000/- SOLVED., 7 MOBILE PHONES, 10 SIM CARDS, 07 ATM CARDS, 11 CHEQUE BOOKS & 01 PASSBOOK RECOVERED., THEY CHEATED MORE THAN 50 IN LAST 06 MONTHS.. THEY STARTED CHEATING INNOCENTS IN ORDER TO FULFILL EXPENSES OF THEIR LAVISH LIFESTYLE.
(MOREPIC2)Face2News/New Delhi
With the arrest of 04 fraudsters namely, Rahul Sharma @ Mukesh S/o Ramesh Sharma R/o Subhash Park Extn, Shahdara, Delhi, Age–28 Years, Amir Ansari @ Akash S/o Md. Kasim R/o New Ashok Nagar, Delhi, Age-30 Years, Kalim Ansari S/o Banu Ansari R/o Sector 66, Noida, Age-22 Years and Nikhil Pal S/o Sukhbir Singh R/o Sector 73, Noida, Age-30 Years, staff of Cyber PS/ North-East Distict solved a cheating case involving Rs. 1,94,000/- registered vide FIR No. 20/2023 dated 27.06.2023 u/s 420 IPC, Cyber PS/NE and recovered 07 mobile phones, 10 SIM cards, 07 ATM cards, 11 cheque books & 01 passbook. They started cheating innocents in order to fulfill expenses of their lavish lifestyle.
On 22.06.2023, a complaint was received at Cyber PS, North-East District wherein complainant alleged that his PNB- Metlife Insurance Policy was discontinued due to non-payment of premium. After around 06 months, he received a call from a person who convinced him to pay premium and his policy would be renewed. The callers projected themselves to be PNB-Metlife officials and also sent fake policy papers over email to the complainant. He was duped to pay Rs. 1,94,000/- in three installments. The alleged further asked him to pay Rs. 2,50,000/- for the instant maturity benefits on the policy alongwith incentives. On this, he got suspicious and after some days, they stopped picking his calls, thereafter he realized that he was cheated in lieu of renewing his suspended policy.
(SUBHEAD)In this regard, a case vide FIR No. 20/2023 dated 27.06.2023 u/s 420 IPC was registered in Cyber PS, North-East Delhi and investigation was taken up.
Considering the gravity of offence and nature of incident, a dedicated team led by Insp. Vijay kumar, SHO/PS Cyber/NE comprising SI Mohit Yadav, HC Girish Bhati and Ct. Deepak Yadav was constituted to work on this case under the close supervision of ACP/Operations.
The team gathered the information about the beneficiary account details and on the basis of technical surveillance, several raids were conducted in the area of Noida, U.P. Further local sources were deployed and on the basis of collected local intelligence, the team was successfully able to nab the accused persons, who were later identified.
DR. Joy Tirkey, IPS, DCP< North East Distt, said, during their sustained interrogation, they disclosed their involvement in the case and on their instance, digital evidences connected in the instant case including 07 mobile phones, 10 SIM cards, 07 ATM cards, 11 cheque books & 01 passbook were recovered.
During further investigation, it was revealed that accused Rahul Sharma and accused Amir Ansari @ Akash were main mastermind of this fraud. Both of them used to work in a private insurance company from where they learnt techniques of issuing insurance policies and collected data. They became friends and after leaving their jobs, they decided to start their own work and took a flat on rent in Vaishali, Ghaziabad, U.P. on monthly rent of Rs. 12,000/-.
They used to call randomly on numbers of those looking for insurance or those who already have some insurance policies of reputed companies. In the present case, they projected themselves as PNB-Metlife officials and also sent fake policy papers over email to the complainant. They assured him for instant maturity benefits on his suspended policy alongwith added incentives.
They got the money transferred in the account of accused Kalim Ansari and accused Nikhil used to provide them account details in exchange of his commission. He used to take commission of 20% for any amount received in the account and remaining 80% amount was equally distributed by accused Rahul Sharma and accused Amir Ansari @ Akash. They started cheating innocents in order to fulfill expenses of their lavish lifestyle. They also disclosed that they cheated more than 50 in the last 6 months.
Further efforts are being made to scrutinize their account details and to trace their possible involvement in other complaints also.
