Bhopal police have arrested member of a gang that sells bank accounts to cyber criminals, accused used to sell bank accounts for  Rs 10,000 each. These bank accounts are opened on the documents of poor labourers.

On Wednesday, the police produced the arrested accused Atif Khan (35) in the court and sought his remand. He was released on bail by the court.

Atif is a resident of Lalitpur in Uttar Pradesh. His gang leader Ajay Sharma and member Pankaj Sen are absconding. Both are residents of Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh).

It is being claimed that two mobile phones, bank kits of accounts opened fraudulently, passport and other documents have been recovered from accused Atif. However, his getting bail easily has also raised questions on the police investigation.

Ayodhya Nagar police station TI Mahesh Lillare said, 'Accused Atif is a fraudster of a cyber thug gang and a gang that exchanges currency fraudulently. During interrogation, he told that he has been living on rent in the Kolar area of Bhopal for 1 year.

He used to take documents of people living in slum areas by luring them to get loans at low interest rates. After this, he used to open accounts in their name in Federal Bank MP Nagar and sell them. Police have seized passbooks of four bank accounts opened fraudulently, fake SIM, passport copy from him.

Accused Atif had come to Bhopal on Ajay's behest. Ajay had told him to develop trust and influence the slum dwellers and target Ren Baseras and laborers' pitha (where laborers gather). Obtain their documents by promising to get them loans at low rates.

The accused was doing the same. He used to deceive the labourers that he will open an account on their documents, and in return for using this account, they will be given Rs. 5000 per month. All the documents related to the bank account will be returned after the work is over.

The accused used to come to the shop located near Meenal Gate No. 2 in the city for the past several days and was luring the labourers. Two labourers agreed to open accounts under his influence. Both of them handed over their documents to the accused.

On the information of the informer, the police arrested the accused on Tuesday. The police said that information is being gathered about how many accounts the accused has sold in the past by opening them fraudulently.