Lid off fake luxury car insurance policies

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 23

The UT police have arrested a Sector 25 resident, who used to allegedly prepare fake insurance policies of luxury cars.

The police suspect the fake insurance policies were used to get vehicles registered with the Registering and Licensing Authority (RLA), Sector 17.

A team, led by Inspector Ram Rattan, SHO of the Sector 17 police station, nabbed the suspect, Suraj Pal (36), a resident of the Sector 25 colony. The police said Avneet Saini of Sector 44 had informed that he got his car’s insurance done from a person after paying him Rs 2,000. The suspect gave him an HDFC insurance, which he later found to be fake.

Acting on the information, the police nabbed the suspect from outside the RLA office.

The police seized 12 RCs of luxury cars, three fake insurance policies and a counterfeit stamp of a woman doctor of the GMCH, Sector 32.

Luxury car owners used to approach the suspect to get fake insurance done in a bid to avoid high insurance costs.

The police said they suspected that fake insurance policies were also used to get vehicles registered with the RLA.

A case under Sections 420, 468, 472 and 474 of the IPC has been registered against him at the Sector 17 police station. He was produced in a court today and remanded in one-day police custody.