India, March 12 -- A former Indian Army jawan, along with two others, has been booked for making a fraudulent death claim to secure insurance benefits worth Rs 3 lakh from the Army Group Insurance Fund.

According to an FIR registered on March 6, the case pertains to a claim made in 2011 under the Extended Insurance Scheme of the Army Group Insurance Fund (AGIF).

Police said the accused include ex-sepoy Akhilesh Kumar, his wife Gyanti Devi and Sohan Pandit, the then sarpanch of Kako in Bihar's Jehanabad district, who allegedly issued and attested a fake death certificate.

The FIR has been registered under Sections 420 (cheating and thereby dishonestly inducing delivery of property, or the making, alteration or destruction of a valuable ...