Mumbai Crime: Four held for duping insurance policy holders

Four people were arrested recently by the DB Marg police for running a fake call center in the name of an insurance companyldquoThe accused used to call people and say that if you surrender the policy then you will get the benefit of lakhs of rupeesrdquo said policeThey used to cheat people in the name of process fee to surrender the policy they addedAccording to the information received from the police Meena Sawant 58 who works as a clerk in Canara Bank was called by a person named Darshan Thombre few months ago Thombre told her that she has premium dues of Reliance Nippon Insurance which she should pay quickly When Sawant said she had paid the premium Thombre asked her to send the receipt on WhatsApp which she did Two days after sending the premium receipt Thombre called Sawant and told her that if she surrenders the policy she will get Rs 293000 Sawant then told Thombre that apart from Reliance Nippon she also has two policies of Bharti AXA which she wants to surrender On this Thombre said that both of these companies have merged and she can surrender the policy but will have to pay a process fee of Rs 10000 for which Sawant agreedAlso Read Thane Crime Two held for posing as power firm employees cheating people of over Rs 19 lakhThe next day Thombre gave Sawant a bank account number and asked her to deposit the process fee in it Sawant deposited the moneyTwo days later Thombre called again and asked to deposit another Rs 15000 in the account as process fee Sawant deposited that too In this way Thombre took a total of Rs 90000 from Sawant When the victim did not get the money in return for surrendering the insurance she called Thombre and he didnrsquot pick up Sawant then complained to the policeAfter Sawantrsquos complaint the DB Marg police traced the location of the number from which the call came and arrested Suraj Waghmare 28 Investigation revealed that Waghmare works in a call center from where he called Sawant After this DB Marg police arrested Tejas Panwalkar 26 who was working in the same office along with Sagar Pawal 36 and Namdev Jangle 33 who ran a call center in Kapurbawdi area of ThanePolice have seized 2 laptops 8 GSM fixed wireless terminal and five SIM cards from their call center On Thursday the police presented these four in court and told said that two notebooks a diary Aadhar card of the customer PAN card along with information about peoples insurance and their salary have been received from the call center DB Marg police told the court It has to be investigated from where all this data was received and how many people have been cheated by the arrested accusedrdquo