Prime accused held for duping Pune physician of Rs 2 crore

Pune: The Pune police have arrested a fifth individual, recognized because the mastermind in a fraud case the place a Pune-based physician has been cheated of Rs 2 crore in an insurance coverage coverage rip-off.

The Pune metropolis cyber police had already arrested 4 different folks. The opposite accused have been recognized as 27-year-old Shahawan Putra Salim Ahmed, Sandeep Kumar Pautra Dharmapal from Ghaziabad, Sahib Khan Putra Nasir Ali and Tuajib Khan Putra Akil Ahmed from Kasganj.

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The physician and the accused got here to contact after the previous was promised an insurance coverage coverage in 2013. The accused urged the physician to speculate Rs 2.05 crore for higher returns.

One of many accused used to work at a non-public insurance coverage firm in Noida, throughout which he collected the info of the shoppers and contacted them later. The physician was additionally contacted in an identical method and was requested to revive his lapsed insurance coverage coverage. The physician ultimately agreed to their calls for and invested some cash. However he did not get any returns.

The Pune police at present arrested 37-year-old Faridabad resident Bablu Bindeshwar Paswan. He was apprehended from Agra jail in Uttar Pradesh, the place he was serving his time.

Following courtroom orders, Paswan was taken into custody and delivered to Pune for additional investigation reviews the Punekar news. The accused used round 41 financial institution accounts from 18 totally different banks for his or her fraudulent operations.

A case was registered on the Pune cyber police station below sections 419, 420 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and different related sections of the Info Know-how Act, reveals a beforehand printed media report within the Hindustan Times. The investigation was led by Deputy Commissioner of Police Srinivas Ghadge, Assistant Commissioner of Police Vijaykumar Palasule and Senior Police Inspector Meenal Supe-Patil. The investigating staff members included Police Inspector Chandrashekhar Sawant and constables Praveen Singh Rajput, Vaibhav Mane, Rajudas Chavan, and Kiran Jamdade.

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