India, May 26 -- An insurance agent has been booked for allegedly defrauding an elderly Malabar Hill couple by providing them fabricated policy documents after accepting insurance premiums from them.

Police said the couple had not suspected anything miss until the elderly woman was admitted to hospital for medical treatment. When they approached the hospital's insurance department, they learnt their so-called policy document had been forged; there was no record of the policy with the insurance company.

According to the Malabar Hill police, the case has been registered on a complaint by Nagendra Sharma, 73, who lives in Malabar Hill with his wife Alka and son Aditya. Sharma told police he had purchased a medical insurance policy from Car...