Meerut, Dec. 5 -- In another case of insurance fraud linked to a syndicate that is being investigated for at least four contract killings and wrongfully amassing gains worth Rs.100 crore, a man allegedly got his son, who had an insurance cover worth Rs.2.10 crore, murdered in Moradabad, police said.

Aniket Sharma, who originally hails from Bahjoi in Sambhal, was found dead in Jaitpur, which comes under Kundarki police station limits in Moradabad, on November 16, superintendent of police (Rural) Kunwar Akash Singh said. While police initially believed that Sharma, 30, could have died in a road accident, the post-mortem revealed that he had been struck on the head with a heavy object, which caused his death.

Investigators soon found that ...