India, March 12 -- A former Indian Army official and his wife cheated the Army Group Insurance Fund (AGIF) by staging the official's death and claiming insurance money, said Delhi Police officials on Wednesday.

A case was registered against the couple and another person after a retired lieutenant colonel from AGIF filed a complaint against them at the Vasant Vihar police station.

According to the FIR lodged last Friday, the retired colonel alleged that a former Indian Army sepoy faked his death on paper and cheated the organisation for years.

The former official, identified as Akhilesh Kumar, served as a sepoy in the Bihar Regiment from 1998 to 2010. Police said that since Kumar served only 12 years, he was not eligible for service pen...