Continuing its operation against cyber criminals and fake SIM card racket, the police of Assam's Morigaon district arrested another criminal and recovered 238 fake SIM cards from him.
"We recovered 22 expensive mobiles and 16 SIM cards, worth about Rs 10 lakh, from his possession. We also impounded a scooter and the keys to expensive, high-end cars," city SP Swatantra Kumar Singh said.
The internal Security wing of Punjab Police in association with the Department of Telecom (DoT) has begun an aggressive crackdown against distributors/agents involved in selling SIM cards on fake identities as the majority of cyber-crimes and anti-national acts are being carried out using mo
According to the Haryana Police official, most of the blocked SIM cards were issued in Andhra Pradesh, followed by West Bengal and Delhi, among others.
A cyber criminal was arrested in Assam's Morigaon district who had allegedly taken loans of around Rs 22 lakh from two private financial companies in the name of different persons, informed officials.
"Based on the intelligence input Odisha STF apprehended three accused persons from Nayagarh and Jajpur District and they have been identified as Pathanisamant Lenka, (35) works as ITI Teacher, Saroj Kumar Nayak, (26) and Soumya Pattanaik, (19)" STF said.
The Department of Telecommunication has conceptualised and implemented artificial intelligence-based facial recognition tool called ASTR for telecom SIM subscriber verification with a vision to analyse, identify and weed out fake/forged, non-bonafide mobile connections for curbing the menace
"The accused used to take the benefit of the delay in blocking the sim by the victim to log in to the wallet and transfer money to their account said Delhi police.
Hours after Assam Police busted a gang, allegedly procuring SIM Cards from different service providers fraudulently and supplying those to some Pakistani agents, Nagaon Superintendent of Police (SP) Leena Doley on Wednesday said that five people are still absconding.
Assam police have apprehended five persons for their alleged involvement in procuring SIM Cards from different service providers fraudulently and supplying those to some Pakistani agents.
The agency claimed to have seized digital devices (mobile phones, SIM cards), sharp-edged knives, and incriminating material, literature and posters during these searches.
Chandana Deepthi, Deputy Commissioner of Police, North Zone, Secunderabad said, "Both accused Khadar Mohideen Ibrahim Sha residents of Chennai, were involved in transporting drugs for the last 2 years. They developed contacts with drug dealers based in Australia and New Zealand. They develop