The Gurugram police has nabbed three people on Wednesday for allegedly duping people by swapping their ATM cards and withdrawing money from their bank accounts. A Maruti Swift car was also recovered from their possession, police said.
The accused were identified as Amit, Kuldeep and Jai Singh all natives of Hisar district in Haryana.
According to police, the suspects would target ATM kiosks that did not have a security guard.
“They specifically targeted senior citizens. The suspects would stand near by the ATM kiosk and offer to help. While helping, they used to notice pin number of the card and later exchanged the ATM card with a fake one. Afterwards, the suspects would withdraw money from the person’s account and would flee in thier car,” said Preet Pal Sangwan, ACP (crime).
The accused were involved in similar kind of incidents in the past and were out on bail, the ACP said, adding that they came on police radar after a complaint was filed with New Colony police station by a senior citizen Jai Singh, whom the culprits had alleged fraudulent exchanged his ATM card on pretext of help but luckily he noticed their wrongdoing and crying for help which compulse the accused run away from the spot on March 22.
"In a prompt action the accused were nabbed by a team of crime branch Sector-10 led by Sub-Inspector Dalpat Singh from Marble market Sector-34 on Wednesday after a tip-offs," said Sangwan.
The suspects were produced before a local court which sent them one day police remand, police said.