FIVE HELD FOR DUPLICATING BANK CHEQUES

New Delhi: In a major carckdown, the Delhi police has busted a pan-India syndicate of cheque duplicators which include employees of private and public banks and have arrested five persons in this connection. With the arrest of the gang members, the police has busted a complex syndicate of inter-state cheque duplicators and has recovered a huge number of duplicate cheques of various public as well as private sector viz. PNB, SBI, HDFC, Bank of Baroda, Axis, Bank of India, ICICI, Canera Bank, Induslnd Bank, Union Bank, Yes Bank, Karur Vysya Bank, Allahabad Bank, IDBI etc. Apart from the cheques, sophisticated type fonts and restricted ink used to re-print MICR and IFSC codes has been recovered. The police said that the accused are Gaurav Kumar Goel, Ashish Kumar Parashar, Amarjeet Singh, Pritam Das, and Sunil Sharma. During question, the accused said that they would arrange clients for duplicate cheques on a commission. The forged cheques were made available to Amarjeet for “sale” by a network of operators, primary amongst them being one Chirag Chaudhary of Delhi. The accused also disclosed that he was availing the services of a master-forger called Shanu alias Ashish Thakur who used to fill in critical data like IFSC Code, MICR Code along with the signatures using sophisticated tools at his command to complete a cheque leaflet as per the data provided to him by Chirag Chaudhary and others. Based on his instance, the team arrested others who told the police that the blank cheque leaflets were provided to him by many operators.