Man ‘orchestrated’ father’s death for ₹39-cr claim: Cops

MEERUT: A 35-year-old man was on Monday arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district over his alleged involvement in a ₹39-crore insurance fraud connected to the suspicious death of his father, police said, adding that one aide of the accused has also been arrested.

- HT Correspondent

Mukesh Singhal (55), the father of key accused Vishal Kumar (35), had held 60 insurance policies with multiple companies, and their combined worth was ₹39 crore, police said, adding all the polices were taken in two years before Singhal’s death in 2024.

“Vishal has already received around ₹1 crore in claims against his father’s death from some insurance companies,” said Devendra Bisht, SHO, Hapur Nagar police station, where an FIR was registered on Sunday based on a complaint from Sanjay Kumar, a representative of an insurance company.

Besides suspecting him of orchestrating his father’s death, police are also looking into the suspicious deaths of Vishal’s mother and wife in the last few years and staging them as accidents to secure insurance funds.

Vishal was the nominated beneficiary of his father.