Gorakhpur: Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday claimed to have damaged the gang involved in sucking money from a bank account by cloning their fingerprints by arresting 11 members.
The arrest took place near the region of Nagar Tiraha and the Panchayat district, he said.
The police said they took more than RS 9 lakh cash, one car, motorbike, fingerprint scanner, fingerprint clon-making device, 53 SIM card, checking books, book passes, ATM cards, laptops, drives and documents.
Senior supervisor of Police Dinesh Kumar P said 11 defendants arrested were ordered under the relevant parts of Indian Criminal Code, including 420 (fraud), 120 B (criminal conspiracy), and IT actions.
During the interrogation, the defendant told the police that they used to give money to Nepalese and Delhi people to open a bank account and also give them money to provide details about Passbook, ATM card, user ID password and KYC.
The defendant will then transfer the money obtained through fraud in this account, police said.
Those who were arrested include Raghvendra Mishra, a resident of Davanhpur, who used to help in opening a bank account from Nepal and Delhi, Sonu Kumar Paswan, a chiluatal resident in Gorakhpur, which is used to withdraw money through aadhar data cards and fingerprints, They said.
Mukesh Kumar, who was accused, residents of Sahjanwa in Gorakhpur, were used to sell aadhar cards and fingerprint data.
Vikas aka Vicky, a resident of Sahjanwa, worked at a photocopy store and used to download registry land data including aadhar card numbers and people’s fingerprint data and sell it to Paswan, police said.
Accused of being accused of being identified as Syed Jawed Ali, Shashank Pandey, Sagar Jaiswal, Rahul Rana, Amit Kanaujia, Ashish Pathak, and Nepal National Dipendra Thapa.