Man held with 28 fake ATM cards

Jalandhar, July 10

Amid rising cases of ATM card fraud cases, cops at the police division number 3, on Saturday, held a man with nearly 28 fake ATM cards.

The accused, indentified as Rajkumar, alias Raj, used to withdraw money from the accounts of gullible people by cloning the debit cards. Besides, eight injections to be used for intoxicants were also recovered from him.

ADCP-1 Jagjit Singh, while addressing the mediapersons said the accused was arrested from a police check-post near Damoria over-bridge.

The cops at police division number three had got a tip-off that the accused was going to take a consignment from the spot. Subsequently, a check-post was installed to nab the accused.

The accused, a resident of Upkar Nagar told the police that he used to rob people at ATMs by pretending to help those who could not withdraw money using their debit cards. The cops said, with his arrest, four ATM fraud cases have been traced. A case under Sections 22, 61 and the 85 of the NDPS Act and under Sections 379, 420 of the IPC has been registered against him at the police station. — TNS