Six men nabbed for duping retd govt employee of ₹80L

The elderly man deposited the money in two bank accounts. We got the details of the accounts and found that between October 2015 and June 2016, ₹1.25 cr was deposited in one account.

NEWDELHI: Six men were arrested on Monday for allegedly duping a retired CPWD engineer of ₹80 lakh on the pretext of providing handsome returns on insurance policies.

They ran a call centre in east Delhi and targeted retired government officers, said police.

The retired CPWD engineer complained to police that a few men told him over the phone that the Indian government was paying a bonus for an insurance he bought many years ago . “The elderly man deposited ₹80 lakh to get his insurance claim worth crores. Later, he realised he was conned,” said a senior police officer.

They traced Ankur, in whose name the bank account was opened, police said. Ankur denied his involvement and told police about his three friends who had taken his identity cards.

“The elderly man deposited the money in two bank accounts. We got the details of the accounts and found that between October 2015 and June 2016, around ₹1.25 crore had been deposited in one account.The second one had ₹27 lakh,” said the officer.

Police said they worked on the clues Ankur gave them about three men— Siddharth, Manish and Pankaj. They nabbed them near Khoda Colony in Ghaziabad. The three led police to their associates Devender Kumar, Sonu Guri and Rohit Kumar.

The six men confessed that they earlier worked in similar call centres which ran insurance rackets. They took an office on rent in east Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar to start their own operations.

Kingpin Pankaj is a BCom student. He has worked in many call centres and has stolen data of elderly persons from the companies, police said.