Guwahati: The absconding cyber fraudster who was running a huge racket was arrested in Laharighat of Assam.
The notorious criminal has been identified as Sirajul Islam.
According to reports, Islam was arrested by Morigaon-Laharighat Police.
Reportedly, a huge cybercrime racked was busted in Laharighat in an operation supervised by Additional Superintendent of Police Samiran Baishya.
During the raid, the police found 121 sim cards, 18 PAN cards, 50 blank PAN cards, 500 blank Aadhar cards, five laptops, one iPad, multiple bank passbooks, phoney documents, seal-stamps, and many other items.
They also arrested a woman, Sirajul’s wife in connection to the racket.
The raid was carried out in response to a complaint from a victim whose PAN card and Aadhar card details had been used to take a huge amount of loan in their name.
Interacting with the media, Baishya had 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 numbers were used in the Dhani app, an online lender, to take huge amount of loan, the police uncovered 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 apply for loan. The victims are totally unaware of the issue,” Samiran said.