Police in Sambhal, UP, have filed charges against 11 individuals from UP, Bihar, and Jharkhand, involved in a massive insurance scam. This "insurance mafia" created fraudulent life insurance policies, targeting the terminally ill and deceased, to defraud companies like ICICI Prudential and SBI Life Insurance.
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