The police busted such a gang that used to sell pre-activated mobile SIM cards through fake IDs. The police nabbed 14 members of the gang and recovered thousands of mobile SIM cards, fake IDs, laptops, printers, computers, cell phones etc.
The police are interrogating the gang members. The case was unearthed by the Crime Branch under the direction of Addl SP (Crime) Pratibha Methew. During the investigation of a case related to intimidation of a businessman, the police reached to the gang. Businessman Manoj Rathore owns a firm— Sheetla traders in Morar. On receipt of threats from different mobile numbers for past few days, he filed a complaint with the police.
However, after investigation of days, the offender could not be traced. Eventually, the case was handed over to the Crime Branch and it detected the location of the mobile phones and nabbed the accused who had taken loan from Manoj Rathore. The accused Vijay Gupta is living in Vinay Nagar Sector-2.
During interrogation, Vijay told the police the details of criminal activities following which the police arrested 14 persons of the gang. The police recovered thousands of pre-activate SIM cards, mobile phones, laptops and other materials. The accused persons have network in whole of the district, especially in the rural areas including Ghatigaon and Mohana. The employees of Reliance and other networking companies are also in stated to be involved in the fraud.
According to the police, the main accused Vijay Gupta had taken a loan of Rs 5 lakhs from Manoj he did not want to repay the loan so he started threatening Manoj Rathore. Gwalior SP Santosh Kumar Singh said that 14 members of the gang have been arrested by the crime branch for making fake ID and selling mobile SIM cards. The gang is suspected of having wide network which are being investigated.