<p>Three men have been arrested in west Delhi for cheating on the pretext of providing a Life Insurance Corporation bonus of Rs 2.4 lakh. The gang targeted LIC and MTNL’s customers, police said on Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The accused have been identified as Keshav Kumar, 28, Gurpal Singh, 25, and Pawan Pal Singh, 26. The gang was busted after a victim named Yashpal Dhawan approached Rajouri Garden police station. Yashpal had been receiving phone calls in which the caller introduced himself as an official of LIC’s head office in Mumbai.<br /><br />“The caller informed that Yashpal had won a bonus of Rs 2.4 lakh from LIC,” said Pushpender Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (West). Yashpal was asked to provide his voter ID card, two photographs and a processing fees of Rs 30,000. They claimed the fee had to be paid through cheque and the amount will be refunded with the bonus.<br /><br />Yashpal had been told to send the cheque through courier, but he refused and asked the caller to send an employee to collect it. On January 2, a man met Yashpal and took the cheque of State Bank of India. On the same day, Yashpal contacted LIC, but found that he had been duped.<br /><br />Over Yashpal’s statement, a case of cheating was registered with Rajouri Garden police station. The police team contacted the courier company and apprehended Keshav, Gurpal and Pawan. They told police that a man named Rupinder is the mastermind of the conspiracy.<br />Rupinder was working with Reliance Life Insurance, but was not satisfied with the job.<br /><br /> In April 2014, he came in contact with a man named Ram Singh, who asked him to open a call center and sell membership of his City Club and ICI Club. “Rupinder opened a call center. But nobody was willing to take the membership of the clubs,” Kumar added.<br /><br />Rupinder then hatched a conspiracy to cheat people on the pretext of bonus in LIC. He involved Pawan and Gurpal to obtain a list of residents having MTNL landlines connection. They analysed that MTNL phones were mostly used by senior citizens.<br /><br /> They asked victims to pay money ranging from Rs 15,000 to 50,000 as processing fee which would be refunded. Pawan worked in a call centre operated to contact victims.<br /><br /></p>
<p>Three men have been arrested in west Delhi for cheating on the pretext of providing a Life Insurance Corporation bonus of Rs 2.4 lakh. The gang targeted LIC and MTNL’s customers, police said on Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The accused have been identified as Keshav Kumar, 28, Gurpal Singh, 25, and Pawan Pal Singh, 26. The gang was busted after a victim named Yashpal Dhawan approached Rajouri Garden police station. Yashpal had been receiving phone calls in which the caller introduced himself as an official of LIC’s head office in Mumbai.<br /><br />“The caller informed that Yashpal had won a bonus of Rs 2.4 lakh from LIC,” said Pushpender Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (West). Yashpal was asked to provide his voter ID card, two photographs and a processing fees of Rs 30,000. They claimed the fee had to be paid through cheque and the amount will be refunded with the bonus.<br /><br />Yashpal had been told to send the cheque through courier, but he refused and asked the caller to send an employee to collect it. On January 2, a man met Yashpal and took the cheque of State Bank of India. On the same day, Yashpal contacted LIC, but found that he had been duped.<br /><br />Over Yashpal’s statement, a case of cheating was registered with Rajouri Garden police station. The police team contacted the courier company and apprehended Keshav, Gurpal and Pawan. They told police that a man named Rupinder is the mastermind of the conspiracy.<br />Rupinder was working with Reliance Life Insurance, but was not satisfied with the job.<br /><br /> In April 2014, he came in contact with a man named Ram Singh, who asked him to open a call center and sell membership of his City Club and ICI Club. “Rupinder opened a call center. But nobody was willing to take the membership of the clubs,” Kumar added.<br /><br />Rupinder then hatched a conspiracy to cheat people on the pretext of bonus in LIC. He involved Pawan and Gurpal to obtain a list of residents having MTNL landlines connection. They analysed that MTNL phones were mostly used by senior citizens.<br /><br /> They asked victims to pay money ranging from Rs 15,000 to 50,000 as processing fee which would be refunded. Pawan worked in a call centre operated to contact victims.<br /><br /></p>
