Cuttack: Odisha Crime Branch (CB) today arrested seven inter-state criminals from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana in connection with an Rs 5.5 lakh insurance fraud case.
The CB has also seized Rs 44,11,420 cash, mobile phones, SIM cards, identity proofs, debit and credit cards from their possession.
The accused were identified as Ritesh Singh, Akash Singh, Avinash Kumar Singh, Jaypal Singh, Ramraj Singh Parmar, Pradeep Kumar and Prem Sankar Biswarkarma.
A complaint had been registered against them at Cyber Crime Police Station in Cuttack in March 2016 by Laxmidhar Hota, of Tarapur under Banki police limits. Hota had alleged the accused had cheated Rs 5.5 lakhs from him by promising to clear maturity amount of his Tata AIG insurance policy.
The seven have been booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Information Technology Act.
Meanwhile, the accused have been brought on transit remand to Cuttack for production before a magistrate. The CB is also continuing its investigation suspecting their involvement in similar other fraud cases.