Guwahati: A huge racket of cyber crime was busted in Morigaon district of Assam during an operation on Saturday.
According to reports, the operation was led by Additional Superintendent of Police Samiran Baishya in Laharighat.
During the raid, the police arrested a woman and seized 121 SIM cards, 18 PAN cards, 50 blank PAN cards, 500 blank Aadhar cards, 5 laptops, 1 iPad, several bank passbooks, fraudulent documents, seal-stamps and many other items.
The raid was carried out in response to a complaint from a victim whose PAN card and Aadhar card details had been exploited to acquire a sizable loan in their name.
Baishya said, “We received a complaint few days back, where the victim claimed that her PAN card and Aadhar card number was used to take huge amount of loan from bank through a mobile number.”
“The victim came to about the issue when she went to bank to apply for loan. In the bank she came to know that her Cibil Score is low and she asked about the matter in the matter as to how her score was low. After that she came to us and filed a complaint,” he added.
The victim’s PAN and Aadhar card data were used in the Dhani app, an online lender, to take huge amount of loan, the police learned after conducting an investigation into the incident.
“After conducting the operation based on the complaint we came to know that these frauds use the victim’s credentials and put the fraud’s photo in the card and applies for loan. The victims are totally unaware of the issue,” Samiran said.
The police learned after questioning the arrested woman that her husband Sirajul Islam, who is presently missing, was running the ring.