IEP Chandigarh, November 10
Haryana Police has busted an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) fraudsters gang with the arrest of two accused in Palwal district. Police has also recovered 209 ATM cards and a Paytm swipe machine from their possession.
Disclosing this here today, the Haryana Police spokesperson informed that the gang used to change ATM cards of innocent people in the name of assisting them and then commit the crime.
On November 9, 2022, Dharamvir Singh, a native of Uttrakhand presently living in NIT Faridabad had lodged a complaint that he went to an ATM to check his account balance. After some time, he received two SMSs about deduction of Rs 5000 and Rs 10000 from the bank account. Upon checking, he found that his ATM card has changed and fraudsters withdrew money.
Taking cognizance of the complaint, a police team based on the intelligence and other inputs arrested two accused with in few hours identified as Akram and Mohammad, both residents of Palwal district.
Police also recovered 209 ATM cards belonging to nationalized and other private banks and a BharatSwipe machine from them.
During the probe, it was revealed that both had a criminal past and had executed many incidents of ATM card fraud in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Haryana’s Palwal since 2014. Both fraudsters make people a victim of their fraud by putting money in a fake account through the swipe machine and then withdrawing the money. Six cases of similar fraud were found to be registered in different police stations against accused Akram in Ujjain (MP).
The accused will be taken on remand to find out their involvement in other cases, he added
