Sambhal, 11 May (HS): Police in Sambhal detained seven people on

Sunday for allegedly murdering two men and arranging deaths as accidents in

order to collect insurance money, according to police. The group reportedly

arranged the killings of Salim and Aman and framed them as road accidents to

fraudulently claim their large insurance premiums. The arrested were named as

Vedprakash, Kamal Singh, Nirdesh Kumar, Udaybhan Singh, Premshankar, Sunil

Kumar, and Omprakash.

ASP Anukriti Sharma stated that Salim was murdered on July 29,

2022, and Aman was slain on November 15, 2023.

Both incidents were identified as deaths caused by traffic accidents,

prompting authorities to immediately shut files. Later, investigators

discovered that, previous to their deaths, Salim had obtained insurance

policies totaling Rs 88 lakh, while Aman was insured for a stunning Rs 2.70

crore, according to an officer.

The group painstakingly planned and executed two killings,

presenting them as accidents. In February, a guy called Shahrukh was arrested,

which marked a breakthrough. A cell phone conversation involving Kamal Singh

prompted a further investigation, which implicated him in Aman's unexplained

death in November 2023. Sharma stated

that a case of unexplained fatality as a result of an accident had been

recorded at the time.

The investigation found that Aman's maternal uncle, Vedprakash,

and his accomplices reportedly murdered him after obtaining insurance policies

worth Rs 2.70 crore from various policies in the deceased's name, according to

the officer. Vedprakash was the complainant in the accident case, and the ASP

stated that about Rs 20 lakh had already been put into an account from the

insurance reimbursement.

Further investigation revealed the gang's participation in a

similar case involving Salim's death in 2022, in which they falsely claimed Rs

75 lakh in insurance money from many firms.

Our investigation revealed an active gang that targeted

individuals, obtained big insurance policies in their names, murdered them, and

staged the deaths as road accidents in order to fraudulently collect insurance

money totaling millions and crores, according to the ASP.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi