With the arrest of two persons, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Delhi Police has busted a gang of cheats who on forged documents used to procure credit cards from various banks. Police said that eight members of the gang had been arrested earlier by the police.
The accused have been identified as Umesh Chander (29) and Ravi Sachdeva (36), who were arrested from Mangolpuri and Burari after several raids on Saturday.
According to Dr O P Mishra, the Joint Commissioner of Police, EOW, the arrest was made in connection with a case registered on a complaint by a private bank, which alleged that the gang of cheats had procured several credit as well as debit cards from it using forged documents.
“On November 4, eight members of the gang were arrested in the case by the EOW and hundreds of credit and debit cards, PAN cards, Aadhaar cards, cash and jewellery were also recovered from their possession. During interrogation, the gang members revealed that Chander and Sachdeva prepared PAN cards, Aadhaar cards and voter IDs on the basis of forged documents, for them to obtain credit and debit cards from various banks,” said the Joint CP.
“Later, Chander and Sacheva were also arrested. Chander used to work as an operator in a firm authorised for processing data for preparation of Aadhaar cards. He was well aware about the entire process of preparing Aadhaar cards,” said the Joiunt CP.
“Subsequently, he opened his own office in Mangolpuri and worked as an agent for firms which were authorised by Aadhaar authorities for preparing the cards. The gang of cheats had approached Chander for preparing different Aadhar cards by using photographs of the same person,” said the Joint CP.
“Since biometrics such as fingerprints and Iris are necessary for preparing each Aadhaar card, Chander used biometrics, ridges of feet of the same person for preparing two different Aadhaar cards. He also used fingerprints and Iris of minors and others who did not have their biometric with Aadhaar authority,” said the Joint CP.
“Chander and his accomplice Sachdeva later used these Aadhaar cards for preparing PAN cards and voter ID cards. They charged Rs 5,000-10,000 for each of these fake PAN cards or Voter ID cards and Rs 25,000 for each Aadhaar card. Police have seized a printer machine, two laptops, one Cogent IRIS Scanner Model and some papers from the office of the accused,” said the Joint CP.