Insurance fraud gang busted
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 26: Cyber Police Jammu today busted a gang involved in insurance fraud cases by arresting three fraudsters from Bijnor (UP) and recovering money looted from innocent people worth Rs 10 lakh.
An official of Cyber Police Cell said that on January 16 this year, a complainant was received at Cyber Police Station Jammu by one person namely Maidul Islam that he received a call on December 7, 2020 from unknown fraudsters pretending themselves from Max Insurance Company.
He said the fraudsters lured the complainant by offering him bonus amount, convinced him to deposit fee to claim the due insurance bonus and eventually duped him (the complainant) with an amount of Rs 10 lakh in multiple transactions.
“Accordingly, a case FIR Number 04/2021 got registered at Cyber Police Station Jammu and during the course of investigation, transactions involved were scrutinized and accordingly details were sought from concerned banks for the details of the account holders and in the process one account of Allahabad Bank branch Bijnor (UP) surfaced in which approximate Rs 6.5 lakh of defrauded amount was credited,” he added.
The official said that the concerned bank branch manager was contacted and as per the details provided by the branch manager, the person on whose name the beneficiary bank account was registered, was located in Bijnor area of UP and accordingly team of Cyber Police Station Jammu led by Inspector Manoj Gupta, Investigation Officer of the instant case under the supervision of Deputy SP Cyber Cell Vaseem Hamdani and overall directions of SP Cyber Cell Naresh Singh rushed to Bijnor.
He said after strenuous efforts along with the help of local police, the police team succeeded in rounding up three suspects namely Mohd Gulsher (32) son of Iddu of village Gopalpur (Bijnor, UP), Vikas (27) son of Munish of village Simla (Bijnor, UP) and Dilshad son of Rahishu Din of village Mohiuddinpur (Bijnor, UP).
“During sustained questioning, accused confessed their crime. Further investigation is going on to ascertain the involvement of accused in other cases,” the official said and appealed general public not to share bank OTP, UPI PIN etc and never get lured with cheap online offers floating on social media and other online platforms offering products with unjustified price.
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