Three men, including an employee of a HDFC bank, were arrested from Delhi’s Rohini for allegedly cheating hundreds of bank account holders by re-issuing SIM cards on fake IDs, using stolen customer data from the bank.
The accused, identified as Sunny Kumar Singh (27), Kapil (28) and Pavin Ramesh (21), were arrested on June 20, while another member Rakesh is absconding. Police said that manhunt has been initiated to nab the remaining accused.
According to Sagar Singh Kalsi, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), north district, they have also recovered 12 SIM cards, five mobile phones, eight debit cards and two fake Aadhaar cards from the accused, and also identified three bank accounts involved in the fraud.
“Two fake bank accounts which were used to transfer money were also identified and are being scrutinized. Sunny, who works at the credit card sales department of a bank in Rohini, collected details of mobile numbers, e-mail, addresses and ID proofs linked to the bank accounts,” said the DCP.
“Meanwhile, Kapil, Pavin and Rakesh made fake ID proofs with these details and reissued SIM cards of the phone numbers linked with the accounts. Police team which had been working for two weeks finally zeroed in on the location of accused persons at Jain Nagar in Rohini,” said the DCP. “An HDFC account holder in his complaint filed in May alleged that he received a message regarding reissuing of his SIM card and password change of his gmail ID.
Later, he found that his SIM card was reissued and upon checking his HDFC account statement, he found that a loan of Rs 11 lakh was taken from his account and Rs 1,00,000 was transferred from the loan amount to another account,” said the DCP.
“Through the money trail and technical analysis of call records, raids were conducted at Jain Nagar and the accused were arrested, the DCP said.
An FIR was registered under section 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code at Cyber North District police station, he added.