Mumbai. The Dindoshi police have booked a Pune-based couple for allegedly submitting a bogus dying certificates and different paperwork to Kotak Life Insurance coverage firm to fraudulently declare ₹50 lakh insurance coverage quantity.
The couple allegedly made up a pretend story by exhibiting that the insured–accused husband had died in a highway accident. In the course of the verification of the paperwork, together with a police report, the insurance coverage firm discovered that the paperwork have been bogus.
The Dindoshi police have booked the couple primarily based on a criticism lodged by Kotak Life Insurance coverage on Friday.
In keeping with the criticism, the accused Prakash Ramchandra Mane, 36, a resident of Pune’s Hadapsar space in January this 12 months had taken an e-term plan of ₹25 lakh from the corporate’s web site. He had additionally availed further cowl of ₹25 lakh in case of unintentional dying. Mane had nominated his spouse, Mayuri, as the only beneficiary of the life insurance coverage coverage, in case of his dying.
Mayuri on March 15 knowledgeable the insurance coverage firm that her husband had died in a highway accident on March 6, 2022, and requested the corporate to course of her declare for an insurance coverage quantity of ₹50 lakh.
Alongside along with her software, Mayuri had additionally submitted related paperwork, akin to photocopies of the dying certificates of her husband, the autopsy report, inquest panchnama, spot panchnama, crime element type, a certificates issued by the Police Patil of the village and the assertion given by Mane’s father to Saswad police station in Pune district.
“The declare division of the corporate undertook verification of the paperwork and located all of these to be bogus and thus it grew to become clear that the accused couple had tried to defraud our firm,” stated the complainant in an announcement to the Dindoshi police.
Primarily based on the criticism, the police have registered an FIR in opposition to Mane and his spouse, reserving the couple underneath sections 420 (dishonest), 465 (forgery), 468 (forgery for objective of dishonest) 471 (utilizing as real a solid doc), 511 (try to commit an offence) and 120-B (felony conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.