Four held in Delhi for duping people with bank, insurance claims

MUMBAI: City crime branch arrested a gang of four from Delhi who used to target people who complained about reimbursements from banks and insurance firm, and under pretext of helping them would tell them to pay some charges and income-tax, and dupe them.

Unit VI, led by inspector Deepak Chavan, arrested Pardeshi Gambhir alias Kapil Gupta, Rajesh Kumar Kashyap Gupta alias Sunil Mittal, Vinay Rajendra alias Ravi Sharma and Ajay Trilokpuri alias Boss alias Guru. Police booked them under IPC sections for cheating, forgery, breach of trust and criminal breach and they were handed over to Vile Parle police.

LIC agent Rajendra Mandivia, who got duped of Rs 3.8 lakh, lodged a complaint. Police said he had invested Rs 20 lakh in policies in his daughter’s name in 2015. Few years back he discontinued them and got back Rs 18.2 lakh but was yet to get Rs 2.8 lakh. Rajendra had been pursuing the insurance firm for few months.

“He recently got a call from ‘insurance company staff ’, offering help. They told him to pay interest rate differentials, income-tax, TDS, Reserve Bank of India charges in 48 accounts and duped him of Rs 3.8 lakh,’’ said DCP (crime) Akbar Pathan. Police said most accounts were in fictitious names.

Police said a huge amount had gone into four persons’ accounts and it seemed the gang had links with a Nigerian gang.

Source: The Times of India