Sushil Kumar Sahni, a 64-year-old resident of Kalka in Haryana, India, was duped of ₹1.97 lakh in a sophisticated insurance scam. The fraud began on February 7, when he received a call from a woman claiming to be an assistant at Punjab National Bank MetLife Insurance in Maharashtra. She convinced him to pay a final installment to release his policy's maturity amount. After transferring ₹98,000, he was promised a return of ₹9.85 lakh within days. The scam escalated as he was contacted again, leading him to pay an additional ₹99,500 as tax for a supposed maturity amount of ₹13.50 lakh. It wasn't until he visited a bank in Chandigarh on March 25 that he learned no such payments had been made. Following this revelation, he reported the incident to the police. The Panchkula cybercrime police have registered an FIR under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and are currently investigating the case.