Man arrested in GK for duping elderly of lakhs

New Delhi: A 32-year-old man was arrested for allegedly duping senior citizens on the pretext of providing 10X bonus on maturity of insurance policies, police said on Wednesday.

The accused, Virender Sahni, is a resident of Greater Kailash, they said.

On June 27, an 82-year-old retired professor had lodged a complaint with police, saying that he had been contacted by a man in 2019, who identified himself as Sandeep Tyagi, DGM, RBI, Lucknow, a senior police officer said.

The man told him that his insurance policies had been taken up for maturity and he would get Rs 90 lakh in return, the officer said.

He then asked the complainant to pay Rs 1.5 lakh as processing charges,. The complainant complied with the request, police said.

Thereafter, the so-called DGM kept on asking for more money, and by the end of the scam had squeezed around Rs 90 lakh from him,

police said.

After the complaint, police investigated the matter and traced the location of the accused.

On Monday, a raid was conducted and Sahni was apprehended, Deputy Commissioner of Police (south) Benita Mary Jaiker said.

Sahni told police that he had been working at an insurance data collection call centre and in 2015 started approaching clients on his own opening a call centre with the help of 2-3 of his associates.

At this call centre, they collected the insurance, and made detailed profiles of potential targets for cheating, police said.