CBI files chargesheet against nine persons for fake claims

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Tiruchirapalli, Sep 5 (UNI) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed chargesheet against nine persons, including two city-based advocates involved in fake insurance claims before the chief judicial magistrate here yesterday.

According to CBI sources, cases involve advocates and their accomplices, who allegedly conspired to fabricate cases of road accidents to claim compensation from insurance companies.

Sources said Advocate K Subramanian alias Subbu and Elango persuaded their friend Pakkirisamy, a technician in the Goldenrock Workshop here to purchase an old moped in a fictitious manner and got insurance cover. While not effecting name transfer in the registration certificate of the moped, insurance was obtained in the name of the original owner.

The others were then Sub-Inspector of Police Tiruverumbur Shanmugam, Pakkirisamy, Ananth, Jeyamary, Karunanidhi, Aranagarajan and Mahendran.

Their modus operandi was to identify persons injured in accidents and convince them to fraudulently admit that the moped of Pakkirisamy had caused the mishap leading to the injury and accordingly, five cases of road accidents were registered in Lalgudi, Ramji Nagar, Tiruchi Cantonment Traffic Wing, Jeeyapuram and Thiruverumbur police stations during 2001, the sources said.

After the accident cases were disposed of, the victims would file a petition before the respective courts seeking compensation for the injuries. However, the petitioners withdrew their claim subsequently, following the Madras High Court's directions to the CBI to investigate the matter.

The charges against nine accused in all the five cases, included criminal conspiracy, attempt to cheat and submission of fake documents as genuine, the sources added.

UNI

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