Gurugram MC issues fake death certificate of living doctor, under lens

Sanjay Yadav

Gurugram, June 23

The Municipal Corporation is under the scanner for allegedly issuing the death certificate of a living doctor.

The certificate was allegedly used by fraudsters to claim the doctor’s insurance money. The fraud came to the fore when an insurance surveyor visited his home.

Dr Ashish Singla, Medical Officer, Municipal Corporation, could not be contacted.

Following a complaint by the doctor’s wife, an FIR has been registered at Sector 29 police station.

According to the complaint filed by Deepika Bhalla, a resident of South City-1, unidentified fraudsters made a claim on her husband Dr Prashant Bhalla’s insurance on her behalf.

According to her, the accused used a fraudulent death certificate of her husband. Dr Prashant Bhalla is the owner of Manav Rachna University.

“The data regarding my nomination in the insurance policies of my husband were leaked from the insurance company. Subsequently, some miscreants hatched a plan to rob us of the insurance amount. They went to the extent of falsely registering the death of my husband with the Registrar, Births and Deaths, at Government Hospital, Sector 10, Gurugram, and obtained a fake death certificate duly verified and signed.

“They further synchronised a bank account of an impersonator having the same name as mine to withdraw the funds. Fortunately, officials of the insurance investigative agency landed at our house for verification and we got to know of the fraud,” said complainant Deepika Bhalla.