Gurgaon: More arrests are likely in the Palwal fingerprints and Aadhaar card cloning racket.
On Tuesday, the Palwal police produced the five arrested accused in a court and took them on an eight-day remand.
Cops have also frozen their bank account with a balance of Rs 10 lakh.
At least one more member of the gang is still at large, police said.
The gang members had been allegedly withdrawing money from the bank accounts of the victims by cloning their fingerprints and Aadhaar cards by obtaining information through their property documents.
They allegedly opened digital wallets in the names of their victims and transferred money to the e-wallets from the bank accounts of their targets, successfully manipulating the Aadhar-enabled payment system (AePS).
“During the police remand, we will try to get more details about the operations of the gang, people involved with them or their earlier crimes,” said Deepak Gehlawat, SP (Palwal).
“We have already registered 43 different FIRs in this case and it is a mammoth investigation.” He said the accused had just started committing fraud after getting copies of a large number of registry papers from the Palwal tehshil.
“Only few papers were used by the accused till the racket was busted.
Delay in their arrests would have caused huge financial loss to a large number of people,” the SP said.
An official of the district administration said that they follow a proper system for maintaining records of all property documents.
“We will wait for the completion of investigation before taking a call on the record keeping system,” he said.
Police have seized 2,078 registry papers and 220 rubber fingerprint clones, of which 34 were used to withdraw Rs 23.45 lakh.
All digital wallets come under the purview of the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), an umbrella organisation for operating retail payments and settlement systems under the ownership of the Reserve Bank of India.
TOI reached out to NPCI, but could not get any response.
Fingerprint cloning racket: 5 accused on police remand
