Four men kill beggar in UP, withdraw Rs 15 lakh from his insurance policies
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MEERUT: It was an easy case to solve for the police when it happened months ago. A wheel-chair bound beggar, unable to dodge the accident in time, was hit by a passing car that killed him. Open and shut, as they say. And it was, too. Until an insurance firm suspected foul play 20 days ago.
Daryab Singh, 38, it has now turned out, was murdered by four men who had craftily been able to pass it on as a hit-and-run to eventually withdraw lakhs from insurance policies they had managed to take out in his name using fraud.
Now in police custody, the accused -- Hariom, his brother Vinod Kumar, Pankaj Raghav, a relationship associate at Max Life Insurance who was attached to a bank in Chandausi (Sambhal), and Pratap Kumar, a murder convict out on bail -- had not only eliminated an innocent beggar but successfully withdrawn Rs 10 lakh in his name. Another Rs 5 lakh, released under a govt accident scheme into the account of the dead man's wife, was also siphoned off without the latter's knowledge.
Sambhal additional SP, Anukriti Sharma, told TOI on Friday: "Hariom, Vinod and Pratap executed the plan near a hotel in Chandausi in July 2024. After a scouting mission, they first got Daryab drunk. One of them then struck him with a hammer. Once he collapsed, another ran him over to make the death look like a road mishap. The accused stayed at the bloody site until they were sure Daryab was dead. Someone reported an accident at Chandausi thana."
After the cremation, Raghav began preparing insurance claims. Daryab's brother Rajender Singh was manipulated into opening a bank account, with Raghav allegedly retaining access and forging consent for the policies. Rajender -- unaware of the true nature of the plan or his brother's violent death -- was misled into believing the money would come from govt welfare schemes.
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