Man held for defrauding of Rs 11.50 lakh through duplicate SIM card

  • | Tuesday | 18th July, 2017

He also provided identification documents and activated the duplicate SIM card.Soon after the number was activated, the accused made the transaction from the bank to a Union Bank of India account in Kolkata. He collected the bank account details and prepared the fake ID cards.Krishna created the fake accounts, while Rohan and Santosh collected the money from the accounts and bought gold with it, said the ASP. Pappu was the person who collected cash from the banks and passed it on to the others.Police have registered cases against the accused and attempts were on to trace them. He was brought to Indore on a production warrant and subsequent interrogation revealed that he was member of a gang operated by one Sagar.Apart from Sagar, the gang consisted of Krishna, Papu Jadhav, Rohan Jadhav and Santosh Sahu.Additional SP Amrendra Singh said Sagar was the kingpin and responsible for identifying victims. INDORE: Police have arrested a West Bengal based man for allegedly defrauding a city-based trader of Rs 11.50 lakh by procuring a duplicate SIM card of the victim's phone number and transferring the money into another account using the OTP provided by the bank.The accused is part of a gang that operated from West Bengal and had defrauded several traders across the country by gathering bank account details and procuring duplicate SIM card of the account operator.Dinesh Kumar Upadhyay a trader of Pardeshipura based Electronics Complex , had approached the police alleging that Rs 11.50 lakh was transferred from his account using OTP provided by the bank to his phone number.The accused had procured duplicate SIM card from a telecom company outlet after claiming that the original one was lost.

INDORE: Police have arrested a West Bengal based man for allegedly defrauding a city-based trader of Rs 11.50 lakh by procuring a duplicate SIM card of the victim's phone number and transferring the money into another account using the OTP provided by the bank.The accused is part of a gang that operated from West Bengal and had defrauded several traders across the country by gathering bank account details and procuring duplicate SIM card of the account operator.Dinesh Kumar Upadhyay a trader of Pardeshipura based Electronics Complex , had approached the police alleging that Rs 11.50 lakh was transferred from his account using OTP provided by the bank to his phone number.The accused had procured duplicate SIM card from a telecom company outlet after claiming that the original one was lost. He also provided identification documents and activated the duplicate SIM card.Soon after the number was activated, the accused made the transaction from the bank to a Union Bank of India account in Kolkata. The account belonged to a dummy firm.Crime branch police collected information about the firm and sifted through CCTV footage of the telecom company outlet, to zoom in on some suspects.A team of policemen were sent to Kolkata, where they found that one Viplav Pal, a resident of 24 Parganas, was arrested by the West Bengal police for similar fraud.During interrogation, Viplav confessed having committed the fraud with Upadhyay. He was brought to Indore on a production warrant and subsequent interrogation revealed that he was member of a gang operated by one Sagar.Apart from Sagar, the gang consisted of Krishna, Papu Jadhav, Rohan Jadhav and Santosh Sahu.Additional SP Amrendra Singh said Sagar was the kingpin and responsible for identifying victims. He collected the bank account details and prepared the fake ID cards.Krishna created the fake accounts, while Rohan and Santosh collected the money from the accounts and bought gold with it, said the ASP. Pappu was the person who collected cash from the banks and passed it on to the others.Police have registered cases against the accused and attempts were on to trace them.

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