COIMBATORE: A couple from Coimbatore who are repeated offenders of insurance fraud in Coimbatore and Madurai were on Thursday slapped Goondas Act by the Coimbatore City Police Commissioner Mr. A Amalraj. The couple will not be able to get bail for one year, police said. The arrested couple was Divya alias Radhika K (31) and Prathap alias Karthik S (32). They were arrested on January 8 by the Coimbatore police for allegedly cheating Dr Marisamy of Saravanampatti for Rs 7.74 lakh. The couple had duped the doctor posing as managers of an insurance firm and offered a fake pension policy to the doctor. Radhika was already facing charges in a similar case at Singanallur where she cheated another doctor duping him of Rs 2.54 lakh in June 2016, Police said. Radhika was facing charges under sections 120B, 419, 465, 468, 471, 420 and 506 (i) of the Indian Penal Code. Later, she got bail. In Madurai’s Anna Nagar police station too a case of cheating were registered. Karthik had studied MBA and was working with a private insurance firm and his wife Radhika is an MSc in biotechnology and was working with SBI Insurance in Erode. The couple got married a few years ago and have two children. They were dismissed from their jobs against allegations of misappropriation of funds, Police said.]]>
