A youth (26), a member of an interstate gang has been arrested with an ATM cloning machine, on the charge of cloning the ATM card of an employee of Electro Steel and also tried to robbed him, said Kartik S Superintendent of Police Bokaro adding “police on the hunt to arrest other members.”
According to the police, the accused were caught by the local villagers under Chandankiyari polices station and later he was handed over to the police. He was caught when he was trying to rob and clone the ATM card of Prakash Gope.
The arrested has been identified as Chandan Kumar, a resident of Nawada, Bihar and students of ITI Baliyapur, presently residing at Jamadova in Dhanbad, SP said.
Police recovered one ATM Card reader, one mobile phone and an ATM card from his possession, he said.
During interrogation, Chandan accepted his crime, said he got Rs 10,000 monthly as salary for stealing ATM data of the individuals. After cloning an ATM card which the target swiped and also secretly noted the PIN number he (Chandan) used to send the data to the other members of the group who downloads the data through a computer.
“We are now looking for other gang members including kingpin,” added SP.