Sambhal,

06 Aug (HS): Sambhal Police detained another member of the so-called insurance

mafia on Wednesday as part of a crackdown on an interstate insurance fraud

network, bringing the total number of arrests in the last six months to 67. At

a news briefing, Sambhal Superintendent of Police (SP) Krishna Kumar Vishnoi

stated that the apprehended individual, Pankaj Kumar Dhali, was involved in

organizing false personal loans and insurance claims using counterfeit

documents and identities. From his possession, police seized 33 PAN cards, 28

Aadhaar cards, and 39 cheque books.

The

new incidence of the fraud involves utilizing invented identities to issue

personal loans in the names of unsuspecting individuals and siphon off

insurance claims, as opposed to previous cases of murder to collect insurance

money.

In

one case, the accused exploited the identity of Dharmendra, a daily wage

laborer and Delhi resident, to falsely represent him as an employee of a shell

company called Falon Case Lab Pvt Ltd. According to authorities,

loans of Rs 12.5 lakh and Rs 5 lakh were fraudulently granted in his name,

despite the fact that Dharmendra is still alive.

Another

person previously arrested in the same case, Shahrukh, allegedly obtained

insurance policies totaling Rs 90 lakh in Dharmendra's name from multiple

companies. He also allegedly obtained a forged death certificate at GB Pant

Hospital in order to falsely claim that the victim had died and gain access to

the insurance money. Shahrukh was

detained in February. Dhali is suspected of presenting falsified credentials to

depict people from several states, including Punjab (Gurdaspur), Uttarakhand

(Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar), and Uttar Pradesh (Bareilly, Baghpat,

Moradabad), as employees of his phony organization, resulting in large-scale

insurance fraud.

This

is a big interstate insurance fraud scam.

In the last six months, 67 persons have been imprisoned in separate

cases related to this scheme. SP Vishnoi

stated that further investigation is continuing, and more information would be

disclosed as it becomes available.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi