2 HELD IN MP FOR CREATING FAKE VOTER ID CARDS

BHOPAL: With the arrest of two youths, the Madhya Pradesh police are looking at a possible cyber fraud gang allegedly involved in duping people by getting access to their bank accounts by changing their personal details on Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), or Aadhaar, website, a police officer said.

Unique case: Cops

There have been instances of fake Aadhaar cards being created by photo-shopping original Aadhaar letter, but this could probably be one of the few cases where a person’s original details on UIDAI website was changed to get control of their Aadhaar details and linked bank account, the police officer added.

The MP police on Friday arrested two persons from Morena, who were reportedly working for one Hariom Sakhwar, the prime suspect in the case of illegal access to the Election Commission of India (ECI) website for creating fake voter identity cards. Shakhwar, 18, a resident of Ambah town in Morena, is absconding, police said.

Link sent to the two accused

A police officer, who is investigating the case, said Sakhwar used to send a link to the two arrested accused -- identified as Akash Jain and Ajay Singh Kushwaha, both 19 years old and unemployed -- for making changes in Aadhaar details by changing the mobile numbers, police said.

“They used to create a fake identity document of a person using their biometric details on the UIDAI website through that link within a few minutes,” the officer said, wishing not to be named.