Guwahati: In a major offensive against the cyber-crime rackets, Morigaon police in Assam have arrested one cyber criminal and seized huge numbers of ATM cards.
The arrested most wanted cyber-criminal has been identified as Diluwar Hussain (34). Morigaon Additional SP (Crime) Samiran Baishya said that one of the prime accused of the gang involved in the fraudulent withdrawal of money from Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana by creating forged Bank accounts, namely Diluwar Hussain has been arrested who was absconding for three months from Hatigaon area in Guwahati.
The Police recovered a total 533 numbers of Bank ATM cards, two Mobile Phones, one swipe machine, one fingerprint machine and some incriminating documents from the possession of the cyber-criminal, ASP Baishya added.
A case was registered at Mikirbheta Police Station against the forgery of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, and Police have arrested eight cyber-criminals so far. It was learnt by the Police that nearly 74 lakhs rupees were withdrawn under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana by the gang using forged documents. Out of which, 53 lakhs were recovered by Police while arresting eight cyber-criminals earlier. But mastermind Diluwar Hussain was absconding for the last three months. Finally, Police arrested him on July 14, and 533 new ATM cards of the Central Bank of India were seized from his possession.
Police sources said that Diluwar Hussain had a CSP centre, and he opened numerous fake accounts with forged documents and withdrawn crores of money under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana in fake farmer’s accounts.
ASP Samiran Baishya said that the seized ATMs have to analyse to assert whether it has already been used by the racket or not? If those were used, then there is a probability that the racket has withdrawn over a crore of rupees so far. Normally a farmer gets over 24000 rupees under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana’s claims. If the seized 533 ATMs were used, then it could be a loot of almost 1 crore 28 lakhs apart from the previous 76 lakhs.
Earlier on July 12, another cyber-criminal named Ashadullah of the Moirabari area was arrested by Morigaon police in connection with a loan fraud case. The arrested cybercriminal fraudulently took Rs 12 lakhs from loan-providing companies L&T, Piramal Finance etc, by submitting fake and forged documents. Cyber-criminals Ashadullah created fake Aadhar cards, PAN cards and Voter IDs and obtained fake SIM cards and applied for loans. After obtaining loans from private financial institutions, he vanished.
Another cyber-criminal namely Mafijur Rahman, 32, of the Laharighat area was arrested in connection with a fraudulent loan case by Morigaon police. Police recovered cash Rs 1,74,000, 2 PAN cards,2 voter IDs, 2 Aadhar cards and other incriminating documents from his possession. Arrested Mafijur Rahman fraudulently obtained loans of several lakhs from financial institutions using fake documents.
On July 6, as per secret information, Laharighat Police Station in Morigaon apprehended two accused persons involved in cyber crimes. The arrested cybercriminals were Abdul Ali, 18 and Sadiqul Islam,25. Both the arrested cyber-criminals were dealing in illegal SIM cards. A total 491 numbers of SIM cards (Vodafone and Idea) along with 3 Mobile handsets were recovered from their possession and duly seized.
Earlier, the Morigaon police arrested a notorious cyber-criminal, Aminul Haque, on June 24 from the Goroimari area of the district. The arrested cyber-criminal, Aminul Haque, has been a prominent figure involved in various cyber-criminal activities. Aminul Haque runs a retail shop of Airtel mobile service and used fake IDs to obtain hundreds of phone numbers which were used in cyber crimes.
During the operation, Morigaon police, headed by Additional SP (Crime) Samiran Baishya, seized a staggering 238 fake SIM cards from Aminul Haque’s possession.
In June this year, a Vodafone distributor Mustakin Ali was arrested from the Mayong area, followed by the arrest of another cyber-criminal, Ashraful Islam, who was a SIM card retailer. Additional SP Samiran Baishya said that these two criminals jointly obtained 24000 fake SIM cards using fake IDs. Whereas Mustakin Ali obtained 14000 fake SIM cards, and Ashraful Islam obtained 10000 fake SIM cards using fake IDs. So far the Morigaon police have arrested 65 cyber-criminals in the district.
