Sleuths of the Special Task Force (STF) arrested four persons and claimed to have busted a gang involved in cloning the cheques and later withdrawing the money from banks. They recovered indiscriminate documents and other items which have been used by the criminals to operate their gang and duped innocent persons.
Briefing the media persons here on Wednesday evening, SSP (STF), Amit Pathak, disclosed that they were trailing behind the gang involved in cloning the bank cheques and later withdrawing money illegally, and on Wednesday, they get success when they get information that some gang members would come to Gole Market, in Mahanagar. He said that STF team immediately swung into action and nabbed four of the gang members. The accused were taken to local police station where they revealed their identity as Aleem, Ramu Shau, both natives of Allahabad, Yogendra Pratap Singh, and Nisith, both hailing from lucknow.
Pathak said that the accused disclosed that with the help of some bank officials they get the used cheques and later managed to get other details of the account holder before forging signatures and withdrawing money from their account. Besides, Nisith, who is working in a private company, disclosed that he used to get a cheque submitted in the company and later through cloning, he get a copy of the cheque and subsequently used to withdraw money.
Surprisingly, the gang also used to open account in the name of same account holders and get a ATM card issued on the same account number and later withdraw money. Some bank employees also help to run the gang spread in lucknow, Allahabad, Kanpur, Kolkata, Banglore, Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra etc. It may be mentioned that on July 1 last, STF already arrested two more members of the same gang. Further efforts were now on to nab remaining accused.
Meanwhile, Amit Pathak, claimed that they also arrested a hardened criminal Monu Pahadi, carrying a cash reward of Rs 50,000 on him. Monu, hailing from Anwarganj area of Kanpur, was held by the STF team led by Additional SP, Shaheb Rasheed Khan, from Naubasta area of Kanpur on Wednesday afternoon. Pahadi, was reportedly having over a dozen cases of heinous crimes registered against his name at Anwarganj, Chamanganj and other police stations of Kanpur. The accused was sent to jail.