2 ex-ITI students held for SIM fraud in KOlkata

Kolkata: The bank fraud section of the detective department has arrested two ITI passouts, hailing from Madhyamgram and Bongaon, for being allegedly associated with an interstate SIM swapping racket in eastern India, which duped traders, mostly senior citizens.

Cops conducted multiple raids across the northern fringes of the city on Wednesday as part of their investigation into this fraud.

This was the second SIM swap racket busted by the police in less than a month.

The two, Biswajit Majumdar and Dipankar Ghosal , allegedly siphoned Rs 7.5 lakh from the complainant, Debraj Dutta’s bank account by swapping the SIM card of his phone. The complaint was lodged on February 22 this year. “The accused also hacked the victim’s email ID linked with the bank. Of the siphoned money, Rs 4.2 lakh was transferred to Majumdar’s account in a private bank,” said DC (Cyber) Atul V. Cops are ascertaining whether the accused had duped other persons.

“The accused lodged a general diary, claiming the SIM of his phone was missing and then got a new SIM issued by the mobile service provider,” said an officer.