In a joint effort by crime branch, TT Nagar police nabbed a fraudster who used to cheat victims by replacing ATM cards. The police recovered 17 ATM cards from his possession.
SP Bhopal (South) Siddhartha Bahuguna while speaking with the media persons on Tuesday, said that based on complaint of Jai Bahadur Chandra who was duped to the tune of Rs 20,000 by the accused investigation was conducted and accused was nabbed from TT Nagar area.
The victim had gone to withdraw money from SBI ATM at TT Nagar on Monday where the accused replaced the ATM card on the pretext of helping him and on Tuesday he received message of withdrawal of Rs 20,000 after which a complaint was lodged and based on the information TT Nagar police were altered and along with crime branch the accused was nabbed.
Initially the accused tried to mislead the police and told the police that the ATM cards are of his friends but later when quizzed he confessed to have committed the crimes.
The nabbed accused was identified as Rajiv Hashmukh Bhai Bhatt (29) of Mira Road Mumbai in Maharashtra. He confessed that his targets were elderly, less educated and illiterate people who visit ATM machines from withdrawal and in the name of helping them he would obtain password of the ATM card and would replace the ATM card with the ATM card of same bank. later the ATM card was used to withdraw money from the victims’ bank accounts.
The accused has been booked in three frauds by Mumbai police and in one fraud by TT Nagar police.
After he failed to mend his ways his family estranged relationship with him around 8 years ago. He worked as salesman and have done marketing job during which he came to know about ATM frauds and to commit fraud he bought stolen ATM cards from black market which he used to replace with the ATM cards of the victims.