Man Plots Own 'Murder' With Friends For Insurance Money, They Kill Him For Real: Report

The police found huge amount of deposits in one of the accused and his wife's bank accounts and further investigation into the case revealed the involvement of four more people. All 6 were arrested.

A 46-year-old man, believed to have "accidently" die last year was known to have been killed by his friends with whom he was plotting a murder to get insurance claim of Rupees 4 crore. As per a report by the Times of India, the deceased, Ashok Bhalerao — a resident of Deolali camp in Maharashtra's Nashik — was found dead near the Indiranagar jogging track on September 2 last year. Considering it to be a death due to an accident, police had registered an FIR against an unidentified motorist for causing death in a hit-and-run.

But later, his brother Deepak cast suspicion on Ashok's accidental death believing that he was murdered after which he approached the police requesting them to reinvestigate the case. 

On Deepak's request, the police then checked the bank balance of one Mangesh Savkar and a woman who had approached the police claiming to be the deceased's brother and wife to complete legal formalities.

The police found huge amount of deposits in bank accounts of both the people and further investigation into the case revealed the involvement of four more people.

All the six accused were arrested by the police and were produced before a court on Wednesday with police remand till December 20, the report added.

"Bhalerao and Savkar had hatched a plan in 2018 or a year later under which they bought an insurance policy in the former's name from 2019. The conspiracy was to kill someone in an accident and pass off the victim as Bhalerao and claim the insurance money," DCP Kirankumar Chavan told the publication.

However, when they could not zero in on a person to kill, Savkar and the other five people executed a plan in September last year to eliminate Bhalerao himself. It is still not known how they killed Bhalerao. DCP Chavan said Bhalerao's family completed the last rites but did not know that he had taken a term insurance plan of Rs 4 crore.