Man kills brother in Moti Nagar 2 held for duping over 1,000 people on pretext of linking Aadhaar cards

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police have started their probe in a case where fraudulent cash withdrawals were made from bank accounts. The investigating agency said that they had received a complaint from a private bank alleging that data of their customers' cards might have been compromised in an ATM situated at Chawri Bazar area.

The complainant told police that the complaints were received from bank account holders regarding fraudulent cash withdrawals from their bank accounts on August 31, September 1 and 2. "These customers have claimed that the usage of their cards was neither carried out and nor authorised by them. They claim that debit cards were in their possession at the time of misuse and fraudulent transactions," complainant further told investigators.

Adding further, the complainant alleged that the amounts are reported to be withdrawn from the distinct locations in Delhi itself using details of the customers debit cards.

"Upon further analysis of the complaints, a common observation is noted that all these aggrieved customers had done the genuine cash withdrawals in the past at a bank ATM located in Sitaram Bazar in Chawri Bazar," police said.

According to police, the bank suspects that datas of the customers' cards might have been compromised in the ATM on June 29 and July 4. CCTV footage for the respective ATM has been retrieved and a suspicious activity noted in the ATM. As of now, 11 customers have raised such dispute till date and disputed amount stands Rs 1.66 lakh. NEW DELHI: A 25-yearold man allegedly killed his younger brother in west Delhi's Moti Nagar area after the latter objected to his argument with his mother. Police said that they are searching for the accused in the case.

According to police, on September 26 a PCR call was received that near Basaidarapur in Moti Nagar one boy has been stabbed whose condition is serious. On reaching the spot, the police team found that one Anand Tiwari (22) was stabbed by his elder brother one Amit Tiwari (25).

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (west) Sameer Sharma said that Anand Tiwari died on the spot itself. On preliminary enquiry, it was revealed that Amit was a regular drinker and had consistent fights with his family, including his mother Shanti Devi and younger brother, the official said, adding that he is suspected to be under the influence of alcohol during the time of the incident. NEW DELHI: More than 1,100 bank accounts were opened at fake addresses to adjust crores of rupees embezzled through online fraud, revealed the investigation in a case in which Delhi Police arrested two persons in online banking racket from Karol Bagh and Ajmer in Rajasthan. Over 1,000 persons were cheated by the fraudsters through sim card swapping.

The investigating agency said that the accused persuade their victims to share confidential details on the pretext of linking their Aadhaar cards with their mobile numbers. Police identified the accused as Alimuddin Ansari (27), a native of Jharkhand and his associate Manoj Yadav (31) who lives in Azamgarh, UP. 81 debit cards, 104 cheque books and 130 passbooks of different bank accounts used in cheating were recovered. "Ansari was arrested from Ajmer whereas Yadav was nabbed from Karol Bagh area," police said.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka) Anto Alphonse said Ansari was the mastermind of this syndicate. He allegedly operated his illegal business through multiple unorganized call centres from Jharkhand. The team of Dwarka district cyber cell led by sub-inspector Arvind Kumar and Dwarka North police station team investigated the case. "Yadav's job was to provide Bank accounts to adjust the cheated amount via online fraud. Yadav targets the poor and the labour class people. He offered Rs 2,000 per account to these people if they provide him Bank account on their IDS," said Dwarka DCP. More than 1100 bank accounts were opened.

Investigator said that Ansari and his associates call up people posing as customer care executives of the telecom service provider or bank employee, and on the pretext of linking their Aadhar numbers with their mobile numbers or bank accounts, ask for card details of the Bank accounts linked with that number.

After getting all the details, they sent a message to them and asked them to forward the message to the customer care number. Once the target is convinced to send the SMS, that carried the 20 digit number of the new SIM card (which is already in possession of the fraudsters), the original SIM card with the victims are deactivated forever.

As a result, the group gets access to all the bank account details and other potential areas where a mobile number is used to receive the OTP or other security passwords. Within minutes, the accused do account transactions through mobile banking without victim's knowledge.