Man Fakes Death, Kills Villager To Claim $5 Million Insurance: Cops
NDTV
Police have arrested four persons for helping the main accused in planning and executing the killing of the mentally unstable man, 50.
A 54-year-old man was arrested by the police for allegedly faking his death by killing a mentally unstable man in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra with a snakebite to claim insurance money worth USD 5 million from a firm in the USA where he used to live earlier, an official said on Monday.
Police have arrested four persons for helping the main accused in planning and executing the killing of the mentally unstable man, 50.
The alleged incident had occurred in Rajur village in Akole tehsil of the Ahmednagar district in April this year.
"The main accused Prabhakar Waghchoure had lived with his family in the US for the last 20 years. He had taken a life insurance worth USD 5 million from an American firm," said Manoj Patil, Superintendent of Police, Ahmednagar.
