A person who is suspected to be a member of an interstate gang engaged in spiriting away money by cloning ATM cards has been arrested by a joint team of Gujarat and Uttarakhand police. The gang had looted over Rs 30 lakh from people in Gujarat by making 133 ATM clones, investigation revealed.
The police have recovered cloned ATMs, skimmer machine, card righter, passbook and Rs 9.30 lakh in cash from the possession of the criminal.
The In-charge of Basant Vihar police station Hemant Khanduri said that the Gujarat Special Operation Group (SOG) Junagarh had intimated the Dehradun police on the presence of the suspected criminal in the district.
On receiving the information, the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dehradun Nivedita Kukreti constituted a team under Basant Vihar police station in-charge. The police team on Tuesday arrested one Sandeep Kaushik, a resident of Sonipat Haryana, from a house located on GMS Road and recovered cloned ATMs from his possession.
In course of the interrogation, the arrested person is believed to have confessed his involvement in ATM card forgery and in swindling people of over Rs 30 lakh through cloned ATM cards. The Gujarat police has taken the criminal on transit remand, police sources said.