Mumbai Crime: Three held for attempting to scam LIC of Rs 2 cr

On April 21 2015 Pramod Taksale a 29yearold resident of Omkar Colony Ahmednagar applied via an agent for two Life Insurance Corporation LIC policies worth R5 and R3 croreAlong with the application Dinesh attached certified income tax returns for three financial years from 2012 to 2015 In his application he claimed he received R3885 lakh per year in income from his farm and R274 lakh from his mess hallOn July 5 2015 the LIC office decided to accept his application and sanctioned a policy for 35 years worth R2 crore and he was asked to pay R146 lakh as a premium for the first trimester On March 14 2017 a woman claiming to be Dineshs mother Nandabai Taksale applied for a death claim at the LICs Dadar branch stating that her son had lost his life in a road accident on December 25 2016 During the verification LIC officials found that the documents attached by Dinesh while applying for the policy had been forged he didnrsquot own any farm or ever ran a mess There was also a discrepancy in the documents attached to the death claim and suspicions surfaced that Dinesh was alive and well Finally LIC officials directed officials at the Dadar branch to register an offenceOn February 21 2023 LICrsquos assistant administrative officer Omprakash Sahu submitted a complaint with the Shivaji Park cops against Dinesh and his mother Nandabai following which both were booked under Sections 120B criminal conspiracy 420 cheating 465 forgery 467 forgery of valuable security will etc 468 forgery for the purpose of cheating 471 using forged document as genuine and 511 punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment of the Indian Penal Code while a probe was initiatedManoj Patil DCP Zone 5 directed Satish Kasbe senior inspector of Shivaji Park police station to depute a dedicated team to find out the truth Inspector Keshavkumar Kasar Assistant Police Inspector Mangesh Jamdade and Police Sub Inspector Yogesh Rane led the investigation and eventually traced Dinesh to Ahmednagar ldquoDuring the initial investigation it was known that Dinesh was alive Our team launched the search operation and tracked him down After interrogating him we found two of his friends were also involved they have been detainedrdquo said Patil ldquoAfter they were interrogated in detail the plan hatched by them to usurp the insured amount was laid barerdquo he addedDinesh was arrested on March 2 while his friends Anil Latke and Vijay Malwade were arrested two days later The trio will remain in police custody till March 8 ldquoThe accused have engineering diplomas and are working in a private company But due to their low income they decided to do this Trio even paid around R5 lakh as premium to show that Dinesh could pay for the policy They invested their entire savings to pull this off said an officer privy to investigationThe planThe arrested had initially planned to seek a policy worth R8 crore by showing forged income tax returns But LIC approved a policy worth R2 crore But to claim that they were waiting to find an unclaimed dead body In December 2016 they found a corpse lying in the Shreengora Rural Hospital Ahmednagar An elderly couple was brought to the hospital in front of doctors and the person was identified as Dinesh When the documents were prepared the body was disposed of by the trioAlso Read Mumbai Crime Two pushing women into sex trade in Oman nabbedNext moveAfter getting the postmortem note and other legal documents the trio took a woman to LICrsquos Dadar office claiming that Dinesh was dead The trio believed as all the documents were clear the claim would be settled and they would get the money easily But being a shortterm death claim LIC officials launched their own investigationPatil told midday There are many unanswered questions Who from the rural hospital helped the accused Why werent thorough document checks carried out Who was the couple who appeared in the hospital Who was the person whose body was disposed of by the accused The investigation will reveal the entire plot