NEW DELHI:
Delhi Police on Monday arrested
two women
and a man who used to
cheat
people on the
pretext
of
renewing
their
vehicle insurance online
. While the two women are former employees of an insurance company, the man is an undergraduate student.
The two women have been identified as 36-year-old Paramjeet Kaur, a resident of Pooth Kalan and Ritu Khurana (44) from Jahangirpuri. The
arrested
man is Deepak Bansal, a resident of Pooth Kalan.
The forgery came to light when a complaint was received at the district cyber cell of northwest Delhi from a resident of Jahangirpuri, Avdhesh Yadav. He said that he got the
vehicle insurance
of his truck renewed by paying Rs 34,000 to an acquaintance. However, the insurance papers he received were fake. When Yadav complained about it to his acquaintance, the latter provided him with a mobile number through which he was in touch with the “insurance company executives”. Yadav contacted the executives only to receive another fake policy. He then got a case registered.
DCP (Northwest) Vijayanta Arya said during an inquiry, the bank account number in which the complainant had transferred the amount was found registered in the name of a woman, Paramjit Kaur. Bank account details of the fraudsters were obtained and call detail records of the phone numbers used by them were analysed.
“On the basis of technical surveillance and information collected by our team, a raid was conducted on Saturday and along with our main suspect Paramjeet Kaur, her associate Deepak Bansal was also arrested,” the DCP added.
During interrogation, the two accused confessed to their involvement in forging the insurance policies for money. They disclosed that Kaur used to get a database of people who needed to get their vehicle insurance renewed and thereafter she used to call them asking them to transfer the money in her account on the pretext of providing them a renewed policy.
Kaur used to transfer the amount to Paytm account of co-accused Deepak Bansal who would later return it to her in cash after taking his commission. “The mobile phone, which was used to call victims, was also seized,” Arya said.