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Insurance scam busted, 7 held in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: Seven persons were arrested on Friday for operating a fake insurance policy racket that targeted over 1,500 people nationwide. Two suspects, former employees of a Noida call centre, allegedly stole customer data and contacted victims with fake promotional offers.
The group created counterfeit receipts using specialised software after receiving payments from victims. They opened their office in a car and earned approximately Rs 4.5 crores through the fraud. Police identified the prime suspects as Aman Aggarwal (29) and Rahul Sharma (23). The five other accused were identified as Aftab Alam (25), Rahul Yadav (30), Deepak Singh (25), Garvit Tyagi (24) and Jagjit Singh (26).
Alok Priyadarshi, additional CP of Ghaziabad, told TOI that Aman and Rahul worked at HAXR Company in Noida in 2021. This company was an authorised centre for various insurance policies from companies like Reliance, Bharti Hexa, Cigna TTK, HDFC, and Bajaj.
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"They provided the mule bank account details to victims and provided fake insurance documents to them. For contacting policyholders, they used pre-activated SIM cards with fake IDs provided by a person named Mukesh (absconding)," Alok said.
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The accused were booked by Cyber police station under the sections 3(5) (acts done by several people in furtherance of common intention), 318 (4) (cheating), 336 (3) and 338 (forgery), 340 (using forged documents) of BNS and Section 66 of the IT Act.
