Eleven members of a gang had been arrested in Ahmedabad for allegedly forging Aadhaar playing cards to open “benami” accounts in a number of banks to commit cyber crimes, mentioned the police, including that gang kingpin is absconding.
The Cyber Crime Police station acquired a tip-off in regards to the gang working from Ahmedabad’s Chandkheda space.
Primarily based on the knowledge acquired by Inspector NB Nakum, a police group raided the premises and arrested 9 of the full 11 accused.
Throughout investigation, the police discovered that one of many accused, Suresh Jagdish Bishnoi, was main this operation.
All of the accused belong to Rajasthan’s Jodhpur.
A press release from the Cyber Crime Police Thursday acknowledged that the “workers” allegedly revealed that they might go to completely different branches of a number of banks, open up accounts and hand over their account particulars to Bishnoi and one other individual named Sunil Dhirani, who was based mostly in Jodhpur.
The accused used to submit pretend Aadhaar playing cards whereas opening up their financial institution accounts, mentioned the assertion.
Throughout the probe it was discovered that a number of Aadhaar playing cards had the identical cellphone quantity however completely different addresses. The accused had, utilizing the cellphone quantity, allegedly acquired OTP from UIDAI and adjusted the unique tackle of Rajasthan to these in Chandkheda (Ahmedabad), Morbi and Rajkot on the mentioned Aadhaar playing cards, in response to the assertion.
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Throughout the raid, the police seized 12 cellphones, 21 identification paperwork (Aadhaar playing cards, PAN playing cards and cheque e book), 10 financial institution passbooks, 43 ATM debit playing cards and 15 SIM playing cards, mentioned DCP (Cyber Crime) Lavina Sinha.
Additional interrogation revealed that 109 complaints had been filed on the Nationwide Cyber Reporting Platform (NCRP) in opposition to the accounts opened by them in 21 states, out of which 4 complaints had been registered from Gujarat. The accused had opened financial institution accounts throughout 26 branches, mentioned the police.
The 9 accused arrested throughout the raid embrace Suresh Jagdish Bishnoi (19), Anil Ugrasen Bishnoi (20), Kailash Khamoram Bishnoi (43), Hukamram Bhagwanram Bishnoi (19), Manish Hajariram Bishnoi (20), Vikas Punaram Bishnoi (18), Rakesh Sukhram Bishnoi (22), Rakesh Sahiram Bishnoi (22) and Mankul Sahiram Bishnoi (25).
Notably, when accused Rakesh Sahiram Bishnoi was searched, the police discovered a pistol with seven stay cartridges from his individual.
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Primarily based on the inputs given by the 9 accused, two extra accused, Lalit Shankarlal Bishnoi and Kuldeep Hanumanram Kichar, had been arrested from Rajasthan. The alleged chief of the gang, Sunil Dhirani, stays absconding, mentioned the police.
A case has been registered in opposition to all of the accused within the cybercrime police station below Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Sections 318(4) (dishonest), 316(2) (prison breach of belief), 61(2)(a) (prison conspiracy), 54 (abettor current) and Sections 66(c), 66(d) of the IT Act.
