Ahmedabad:
A debt-ridden hotelier in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district faked his demise in a automotive accident to assert life insurance coverage price Rs 1.26 crore. The meticulous plan, nonetheless, was foiled by the police. Dalpat Singh Parmar’s three accomplices have been arrested and he’s on the run.
In accordance with police, burnt stays of a automotive have been present in Vadgam village on Friday. Contained in the car have been the charred stays of a human physique. When police checked the small print of the car registration quantity, they discovered it belonged to Dalpat Singh Parmar, 40. His relations confirmed that the physique belonged to him, however the police smelled a rat. Samples from the physique within the automotive have been despatched for forensic exams and the outcomes didn’t match the samples collected from the household’s members.
As police dug deeper, they discovered Parmar had taken large loans to construct a resort and was neck-deep in debt. In search of a method out, he deliberate to pretend his demise in a automotive accident in order that his household might get an accident cowl price Rs 1 crore and an insurance coverage payout of Rs 23 lakh. The plan was that Parmar would go into hiding until his household obtained the cash, the investigation revealed. The hotelier roped in some kinfolk, together with his brother, for assist.
The large problem was arranging the physique that might be handed off as his. Parmar and the others determined to steal a physique from the close by cremation floor. It should be identified right here that some Hindu sects in Gujarat bury their useless as an alternative of cremating them.
4 accused, together with Parmar, entered the cremation floor late at night time and dug out a physique buried 4 months again. This physique was then put into Parmar’s automotive and the car was set on fireplace to stage the accident and his demise.
When it was established that the physique within the automotive didn’t belong to Parmar, police confronted the massive query: whose physique was it? After they scanned CCTV footage of the village cremation floor, they discovered 4 males transferring a physique at night time. When the accused seen within the video have been grilled, they admitted to placing the dug-out corpse into Parmar’s automotive and setting it on fireplace. The stolen physique was later recognized as that of Ramesh Solanki, who died 4 months again.
Banaskantha police superintendent Akshayraj Makwana informed the media that the police have discovered that Parmar and the opposite accused stole the physique, put it into the automotive and set the car on fireplace to assert insurance coverage cash within the hotelier’s identify. “4 accused have been a part of the conspiracy. Three have been arrested and we’re searching for the primary accused,” he stated.
Inputs by Mahendra Prasad