Assam: Cyber Fraud Racket Busted, 10 Arrested

GUWAHATI : An incident came into light on Saturday, where a cyber fraud racket was busted and ten people were arrested from Assam's Morigaon district. 

A senior police officer stated that a group consisting of several people were allegedly availing loans through various mobile applications by submitting fake documents. A search operation was initiated by a team of police from Moirabari police station, after receiving a list complaints from various agencies. 

The latest one was issued by Larsen and Tourbo company, after which the department conducted investigations in several places in the area on 23rd of December, Friday. 

Samiran Baishya, the superintendent of police stated that, as a result of the search operation conducted in the area, ten cyber criminals were nabbed by the police force. He informed the press that the criminals misused the PAN and Aadhaar card of people in order to to get access to loans from mobile applications. 

The department has seized several items from their possession, such as fake PAN and Aadhaar cards, computer hard discs and several mobile sims, 50 seals of varied organisations, 22 mobile phones, two bikes, two cars and an amount of Rs 22,000. 

Baishya further stated that, this is not where the rackets ends, there are more people involved in such crimes, and police are in the process of arresting all of them. Prior to this case, four people were arrested for cyber fraud recently, taking the number of such criminals to 14. 

The accused will be facing the court of justice, mentioned by the SP.

One of the most highlighted cases of cyber crime includes the arrest made by police in Jorhat district for extracting an amount of Rs 16 lakhs from Punjab National Bank account of Lalit Shyam. The victim is a retired college principal and the accused has been identified as Navam Shrotriya.

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