Inter-state ATM fraud gang busted in Dehradun, 4 held

Dehradun: Dehradun police busted an inter-state gang of four thieves wanted in several cases of ATM fraud in Uttarakhand and four other states on Monday.
“All four were wanted in an ATM fraud committed by them in Cantt police station area last month. A case was filed under section 420 (cheating) of the IPC. During interrogation, they confessed to committing similar crimes in other states as well,” said Nivedita Kukreti, senior superintendent of police (SSP) Dehradun.
On August 20, 2018, Shakuntala, a resident of Dakra in Garhi Cantt, had filed a complaint stating that someone had withdrawn Rs 109,000 from her account using her debit card.
On the basis of CCTV footage of the ATM where the complainant had gone to withdraw money, police came to the conclusion that her debit card was swapped with a duplicate card by some unidentified men who were caught on camera leaving the place in a grey car.
The SSP said that the gang targeted unguarded ATMs. “They approached people who didn’t know how to withdraw money from an ATM. They would see the PIN code and replace the debit card with a duplicate card,” she said.
Police arrested Jihendra Kumar, Pankaj Kumar, Vishal and Sandeep Singh, all natives of Saharanpur district in Uttar Pradesh, near Kaulagarh in Dehradun. The four said that they had committed similar crimes in Premnagar and Clement town as well as other states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Haryana.