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GREATER NOIDA: Nearly two years after a Greater Noida-based engineer was allegedly cheated of nearly Rs 3 lakh by telecallers who identified themselves as agents of a private insurance firm , police have booked the company for cheating and under sections of the IT Act.Police said the FIR was registered in the case after investigations — in one of the fake call centre scam cases — revealed that some of the insurance company officials used to illegally sell customers’ data outside. Then she assigned a male consultant handling my account, and on his advice I transferred Rs 2.85 lakh in eight transactions in various accounts — Policy Solutions, Costumer Solutions etc,” he said.“Later when the calls stopped coming, I went to the bank where executives told me that the callers were fake and so were the accounts in which I transferred my money. Company officials will soon be called for questioning, they said.According to the victim, Pradeep Kumar (34), a resident of La Residential housing society in Noida Extension, the alleged callers had duped him of Rs 2.85 lakh in the name of policy upgradation.“I received the first call in June 2017 when the caller introduced herself as a company agent and to support her claim, she told me that she had all my policy and personal details. Since then, I have been running from police stations to SSP office to get my FIR registered, but nothing really happened till February 15 when finally the current SSP directed Bisrakh police to book the company for cheating,” Pradeep added.“Taking the matter of data leak and ever-rising cases of fraud with people into cognizance and on the basis of the complaint of the victim, we have booked the company under Sections 420 (cheating) of IPC and Section 66 of the Information Technology Act and due action will be taken,” said Anil Kumar Shai, SHO of Bisrakh police station.“Company officials will soon be called for questioning in the case,” said another official..