Govt employee faked his own death to claim insurance money

According to police, a Telangana secretariat employee who was allegedly killed in a car accident turned out to be a crucial murder suspect who staged his own death in order to receive Rs 6 crore in insurance payouts. M Dharma Naik, an assistant section officer, was arrested in Pune.
On January 9, a milk vendor in Venkatapur, Medak, saw a car on fire and called the local elders. Police believed that the driver may have perished when the car fell into the gorge next to the road and caught fire. The accident theory was junked when the police recovered a petrol bottle and a bag containing clothes and Naik's ID card near the charred vehicle. Barring a portion of a limb, the body was completely burnt. Police suspect Naik made his family claim the body after identifying it on the basis of a birth mark on the leg.
The last rites were performed after an autopsy, police said. Sources said the charred body in Naik's car could be that of a hired driver.
In order to identify those who were with Naik in Venkatapur, police examined active phone data around the crime scene as well as CCTV footage from several locations. A man who remarkably resembled Naik was captured on camera the day after the murder. "We veered around to the theory that the deceased could be someone else, not Naik. We are investigating whether a family member, too, was part of the conspiracy and misguided the police," a police officer from Medak said. There were several insurance policies in Naik's name. He had bought an expensive car a month before the incident.