Mora coastal police have busted an alleged fake call centre racket that operated from a rental office in Vikhroli with the arrest of 11 men, including three masterminds, for duping insurance policy holders.
The gang was busted after cops probed a February case where a Raigad school principal was duped of Rs 96,000. A caller had contacted the principal, Hemant Mhatre (52), a resident of Kegav village in Mora, by posing as a representative of DHFL life insurance company and offered him a settlement for his insurance claim of Rs 34.9 lakh if he cleared his outstanding premiums. The caller made Mhatre make deposits in a bank account of Vikrant Shirodkar, a key accused.
The arrested key accused are Shirodkar of Palghar, and Pramod Jadhav and Vineet Suryakant of Vikhroli. The others are tele-callers Bhaurao Akhade, Amarendra Pal, Suraj Saroj and Aashish Kumar Tiwari from Vikhroli, and Kalyan’s Amol Kadam, Bhiwandi’s Rajan Ghadi, Mumbra’s Deepak Tiwari and Kurla’s Arvind Singh.
Inspector Dattatray Kindre said, “The gang has been operating the call centre for eight months. We have frozen their six bank accounts in Virar, Vasai and Thane, in which their targets were made to deposit the premium amounts.”
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