Police bust call centre racket, arrest 2 imposters
The Delhi Police claims to have busted a cheating rink after it arrested two people for allegedly posing as Life Insurance Corporation and Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority agents as well as running a fake call centre on Wednesday. The police also recovered Rs 5.5 lakh cash, four mobile phones and 20 debit and credit cards among other incriminating documents.
The police said that the conmen have cheated many people all over India on the pretext of asking for processing fee, investment and other expenses along with prize amounts, huge bonus as well as clearances from IRDA on existing insurance policies. They, then, used to withdraw the money from many bank accounts, which they had opened through the use of fake documents.
Bengaluru-based Arun Kumar Verma had lodged a complaint at Delhi's Parliament Street police station on 14 July, 2016, alleging that a certain LIC agent, by the name of Pradeep Negi, had conned him of Rs 24 lakh. Initial probe revealed that there was no Pradeep Negi working for LIC.
After thorough investigation, the police found that the most forged bank accounts were operating from Una in Himachal Pradesh. A police team was subsequently sent to Una and two people - identified as Arun Kumar and Sulabh Pratap Singh - were apprehended on Wednesday as they were tried to withdraw money from the account.
The kingpin, identified as Aman Kumar, is currently at large. The police said Aman ran a fake LIC call centre with 102 landline telephone numbers in a rented two-room house at Noida in NCR.
The police said that Aman had also recruited many ex-call centre employees after impressing upon them that he was running a genuine business. They used to call unsuspecting clients from the fake call centre as LIC agents and unknowingly dupe them.
According to the police, probe in the matter is still on and they are trying to identity other victims and accomplices involved in the racket.
Arun Kumar and Sulabh Pratap Singh are graduates from Delhi University and used to work in a call centre when they came into contact with the kingpin. Their work was to deposit and withdraw the money fraudulently from the bank accounts, the police said.
