<p>Three youths, including two teenagers, have been arrested for approaching senior citizens posing as LIC agents and cheating them by using ‘magic pen’, police said on Wednesday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Gaurav Sharma and Kishan Kumar, both aged 19, and Gagan Singh, 23, used to get cheques for very nominal amount for lucrative insurance schemes.<br /><br />“They used to get the cheques filled with a ‘magic pen’ and later erase the ink to fill a higher amount,” said Ajay Chaudhry, additional commissioner of police (south-east). <br /><br />The gang was busted after victim Tapas Kumar Dey approached police. He told cops that he was contacted by a caller who represented himself as an LIC agent and informed him about a new lucrative scheme exclusively for senior citizens.<br /><br />A processing charge of Rs 200 by cheque was to be paid and the scheme was to be finalised after due negotiation with expert. <br /><br />In pursuance to telephonic conversation, a person approached Tapas and took Rs 200 in cheque.<br /><br />However, after a few days, he realised that Rs 90,000 had been debited from his account.<br /><br />After scrutiny of various records and putting together pieces of information collected from different sources, a police team zeroed-in on Kishan.<br /><br />His interrogation revealed that the mastermind was Gagan, who ran a call centre in Noida for collecting premium for Reliance Insurance and he had huge database of insurance customers. <br /><br />“He also provided the ‘magic pen’. Further investigation revealed that Gagan had gone to the house of the complainant to collect the cheque,” Chaudhry added.<br /><br />The deposited slip of forged cheque, three more cheques which are suspected to be procured by them through fraudulent means, an ATM card of a fictitious account and a fictitious voter ID card of Kishan have been recovered.</p>
<p>Three youths, including two teenagers, have been arrested for approaching senior citizens posing as LIC agents and cheating them by using ‘magic pen’, police said on Wednesday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Gaurav Sharma and Kishan Kumar, both aged 19, and Gagan Singh, 23, used to get cheques for very nominal amount for lucrative insurance schemes.<br /><br />“They used to get the cheques filled with a ‘magic pen’ and later erase the ink to fill a higher amount,” said Ajay Chaudhry, additional commissioner of police (south-east). <br /><br />The gang was busted after victim Tapas Kumar Dey approached police. He told cops that he was contacted by a caller who represented himself as an LIC agent and informed him about a new lucrative scheme exclusively for senior citizens.<br /><br />A processing charge of Rs 200 by cheque was to be paid and the scheme was to be finalised after due negotiation with expert. <br /><br />In pursuance to telephonic conversation, a person approached Tapas and took Rs 200 in cheque.<br /><br />However, after a few days, he realised that Rs 90,000 had been debited from his account.<br /><br />After scrutiny of various records and putting together pieces of information collected from different sources, a police team zeroed-in on Kishan.<br /><br />His interrogation revealed that the mastermind was Gagan, who ran a call centre in Noida for collecting premium for Reliance Insurance and he had huge database of insurance customers. <br /><br />“He also provided the ‘magic pen’. Further investigation revealed that Gagan had gone to the house of the complainant to collect the cheque,” Chaudhry added.<br /><br />The deposited slip of forged cheque, three more cheques which are suspected to be procured by them through fraudulent means, an ATM card of a fictitious account and a fictitious voter ID card of Kishan have been recovered.</p>
