Kathmandu. In recent years, cases of planned murders for insurance money have been on the rise in neighboring India.

Some gangs are active in such criminal cases while some are related to relatives. Recently, a man in Uttar Pradesh, India, destroyed his family in order to get Rs 39 crore for insurance. He killed his wife along with his parents. However, he failed to clear the insurance amount.

Similarly, in Karnataka, a young man was insured for Rs 5 crore by fake marriage. The incident came to light when the gang members and the woman went to claim insurance after marrying the young man.

In Karnataka, a woman killed her husband to get Rs 4.75 crore as insurance premium. In Jharkhand, a man killed his wife in the hope of getting Rs 75 insurance money.

These recent incidents are just a few examples. Such incidents are happening every day in India. In some cases, people with criminal mentalities have even been able to grab insurance money.

A few days ago, a dangerous gang formed to get huge insurance payments was busted in the Chinhat area of Lucknow. The mastermind of this gang, Kuldeep Singh alias Kuldeep Sengar, used to kill people in a premeditated manner and then present them as road accidents.

The Chinhat police on Saturday seized Kuldeep’s illegal assets worth Rs 98.5 lakh, including his own house.

The biggest crime of the gang was the murder of Pooja Yadav in the Chinhat area. Although the incident may appear to be a road accident on the surface, a thorough investigation by the insurance company exposed the entire conspiracy. It was revealed that Pooja’s murder was premeditated to secure insurance claims worth crores.

Pooja’s husband Abhishek Yadav, father-in-law Ram Milan, Deepak Verma, Alok Nigam and Abhishek Shukla were involved in the murder. However, the real mastermind was Kuldeep Singh, a resident of Radhapuram Colony in Kanchanpur Matiyari.

Kuldeep Singh looked like an ordinary man. However, he made crime his business model. He built a strong network of people in the neighborhood who were willing to kill for money. This network gradually evolved into an insurance fraud gang. The gang used to select ordinary people and buy insurance policies of large sums of money for them. After that, he would kill them and present them as road accidents and claim insurance money from the company.

A case was registered against Kuldeep under the Goondas Act led by Dinesh Chandra Mishra, in-charge of Chinhat police station. Investigations revealed that he had amassed illicit wealth worth crores of rupees through several murders and frauds.

The police have seized movable and immovable property worth Rs 98.5 lakh from Kuldeep’s house in Radhapuram Colony. Similar action will be taken against other gang members in the future, police said.