As many as 14 villages of Nuh district in Haryana emerging as new hotspot of cyber criminals. Mostly young generations of the district are indulging in cybercrime by using stolen high-end phones.
This was disclosed by the police after questioning 125 cyber criminals who were apprehended by as many as 102 teams comprising over 5,000 police personnel who raided 300 locations in 14 villages in the district on April 27.
The police raided the 14 identified villages in the Pinangwa, Punhana, Ferozepur Jhirka, Nai, Aminabad, Tirwara, Jaimat and Bichhore areas.The police had earlier identified Khedla, Luhinga Khurd, Luhinga Kalan, Gokalpur, Godhola, Aminabad, Mahu, Gulalta, Jaimat, Jakhopur, Nai, Tirwara, Mamlika and Papda as cybercrime hot spots. The police said the accused cheated people in the name of selling vehicles on OLX, seeking KYC data, offering loans and even sextortion. Most interestingly the hackers have studied only up to Class XII, while some are even illiterate and even some of them have rewards on their heads.
A senior police officer said earlier illiterate youths who were involved in vehicle theft, phone snatching, cattle smuggling and other crimes shifted to cybercrime during the past two years after being “trained” in it. During the raid police nabbed the highest number of 31 cyber criminals from Nai village, followed by 25 from Luhinga Kalan village, 20 each from Jaimat and Jakhopur, 17 each from Khedla and Tirwara, and 11 from Aminabad. A total of 66 smartphones, 65 fake SIMs, 166 Aadhaar cards, 3 laptops, 128 ATM cards of different banks, 2 ATM swipe machines, 01 AEPS machine, 6 scanners, 5 PAN cards, etc. were recovered from the suspects.
Police investigation revealed that most of the youth arrested by the police during the raid were trained in the villages of Jurehera and Ghamdi in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district. The two villages, located on the Haryana-Rajasthan border, have emerged as the “cybercrime training hub. These two villages offer fake SIM cards and documents which help in opening bank accounts.