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Phone insurance fraud
Retired bank employee Mehernosh Variava "has been running from pillar to post to get the police to register his complaint of losing rupees four lakhs” to an alleged telephone fraudster for over two years, reported the mid-day of April 4, 2018.
Variava had reportedly received a call in January 2016 from one Amarjeet Singh, stating that a bonus of rupees six lakhs had accrued on his life insurance policy. Variava, who had then had a knee replacement surgery and was on painkillers, "which probably did not let (him) think clearly,” believed the alleged fraudster "gave (him) the exact number of the policy and the date of its maturity.” Told to deposit Rs 4,00,000 in a bank account, details of which were provided by Singh, after which the bonus would be paid to him, Variava did so, in instalments. When the calls stopped in May 2016, he informed the D. B. Marg police about the incident. An application was made, but allegedly "nothing happened afterwards,” said Variava, who alleged he was refused a copy of his recorded statement to the police. "This went on for two years,” he said, citing that he somehow manages his expenses with his pension, to look after himself and his 95-year-old mother.
Senior inspector Pandurang Shinde of the D. B. Marg police station was quoted in the paper as saying that he has asked his officers to look into the case. "I will make sure the complainant gets justice,” he said.
Variava had reportedly received a call in January 2016 from one Amarjeet Singh, stating that a bonus of rupees six lakhs had accrued on his life insurance policy. Variava, who had then had a knee replacement surgery and was on painkillers, "which probably did not let (him) think clearly,” believed the alleged fraudster "gave (him) the exact number of the policy and the date of its maturity.” Told to deposit Rs 4,00,000 in a bank account, details of which were provided by Singh, after which the bonus would be paid to him, Variava did so, in instalments. When the calls stopped in May 2016, he informed the D. B. Marg police about the incident. An application was made, but allegedly "nothing happened afterwards,” said Variava, who alleged he was refused a copy of his recorded statement to the police. "This went on for two years,” he said, citing that he somehow manages his expenses with his pension, to look after himself and his 95-year-old mother.
Senior inspector Pandurang Shinde of the D. B. Marg police station was quoted in the paper as saying that he has asked his officers to look into the case. "I will make sure the complainant gets justice,” he said.
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