Two held in Cachar for debit card fraud, many cloning machines seized
B B Goswami | TNN | Jan 19, 2019, 10:20 IST
Picture for representational purpose only.SILCHAR: Two men, who were a part of a gang involved in carrying out debit card fraud across Barak Valley, were arrested on Thursday, a police official said.
The accused were identified as Mithun Mazumder (25), a resident of Harinagar-Joypur locality in Cachar district and Santosh Kumar Paswan (22), a resident of Fateypur in Gaya district of Bihar.
Police seized 48 ATM cards, skimming machines, cloning machines, swipe machines, one laptop, one pendrive, one software dish, two mobile handsets, a sum of Rs 16,000 and a number of incriminating documents from them.
A senior police official said a police team, acting on a tip-off, on Thursday raided an ATM kiosk of the SBI Narsingpur branch at Natunbazar, 16 km from here, and caught the two miscreants red-handed. On the same day, a Silchar court sent the two accused to five days of police remand. Sonai police station OC Nirupam Nath said search is on for other suspected gang members.
On the basis of what they revealed during interrogation, police raided the house of one Bappa Das, a resident of Kachudaram in Cachar district, who was also allegedly a part of the racket. However, he is absconding.
The accused were identified as Mithun Mazumder (25), a resident of Harinagar-Joypur locality in Cachar district and Santosh Kumar Paswan (22), a resident of Fateypur in Gaya district of Bihar.
Police seized 48 ATM cards, skimming machines, cloning machines, swipe machines, one laptop, one pendrive, one software dish, two mobile handsets, a sum of Rs 16,000 and a number of incriminating documents from them.
A senior police official said a police team, acting on a tip-off, on Thursday raided an ATM kiosk of the SBI Narsingpur branch at Natunbazar, 16 km from here, and caught the two miscreants red-handed. On the same day, a Silchar court sent the two accused to five days of police remand. Sonai police station OC Nirupam Nath said search is on for other suspected gang members.
On the basis of what they revealed during interrogation, police raided the house of one Bappa Das, a resident of Kachudaram in Cachar district, who was also allegedly a part of the racket. However, he is absconding.
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