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Four men accused of cheating ATM users by diverting their attraction and swapping cards were arrested by the Mehdipatnam police.
The accused were identified arsenic 24-year-old Aamir Suhel alias Ameer Sohail alias Sohel, 25-year-old Mustakeem, 26-year-old Mubarik, each natives of Palwal territory successful Haryana, and 33-year-old Md Amer, an car rickshaw operator residing successful Moinabad connected the outskirts of Hyderabad. Police said Aamir Suhel and Mubarik were the main offenders, portion the different 2 assisted them.
The constabulary recovered ₹52,000 successful cash, 89 ATM cards of antithetic banks, 3 mobile phones and an car rickshaw bearing a Telangana registration fig from their possession. The arrests were made astir 9.00 a.m. connected Saturday (January 3), pursuing a tip-off that the accused were loitering adjacent ATMs successful the Vijay Nagar Colony area.
According to the police, the lawsuit came to airy aft an electrician from Asif Nagar lodged a ailment that his mother’s ATM paper had been exchanged by chartless persons portion helium was checking the relationship equilibrium astatine an ATM successful Mallepally successful December. He aboriginal received alerts showing unauthorised withdrawals and realised that the paper returned to him was not his.
Investigators said the pack targeted aged and illiterate ATM users, pretending to assistance them with equilibrium enquiries oregon withdrawals. During the process, they would get the PIN, speech the card, and aboriginal retreat wealth from the victim’s account.
Police said immoderate of the accused had erstwhile transgression involvement, including cases of theft and cheating successful different States. All 4 were produced earlier a tribunal and remanded to judicial custody.
The Mehdipatnam constabulary advised the nationalist not to manus implicit ATM cards oregon stock PIN details with strangers, adjacent wrong slope premises, and said further probe was underway to place further victims.
