False accident insurance claim lands four in 3 years jail

MADURAI: A court here has sentenced four persons to three years rigorous imprisonment on the charge of cheating the state-owned National Insurance Company by making a false accident insurance claim of Rs 10 lakh.

Chief Judicial Magistrate(CJM) Joseph David held the four guilty of submitting bogus records in making the claim with the National Insurance Company in 2005.

The Magistrate also slapped a fine of Rs 2,500 each on K K Karupasamy, T Karupasamy, V Karupasamy and V Madasamy of Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu.

According to CBI, which investigated the case on a direction from the Madras High Court, the four had entered into a criminal conspiracy to cheat the National Insurance Company by filing the fake claim.

Fake documents were produced to show that T. Karupasamy sustained injuries involving a vehicle owned by V.Karupasamy and driven by V. Madasamy with K. Karupasamy in the pillion. The claim was made before a motor accident claims tribunal in Tirunelveli.

Investigation revealed that K. Karupasamy, who did not have driving licence, had sustained injuries in a self-inflicted accident, caused by his own two-wheeler sans insurance cover.

Cases were filed under various IPC sections before the CJM court.