Gang Of ATM Cash Thieves/Cheats Busted

Crime Branch has busted a gang of ATM cash thieves/cheats with the arrest of 5 criminals namely Kamal Upadhyay, Arun Kumar, Sanjay, Abbas Khan @ Rakesh Solanki and Sandeep Dedha and solved more than 50 cases of ATM cash theft/cheating in Delhi & NCR.

 A complaint was lodged at PS Malviya Nagar by a lady alleging therein that on 16.02.15, she had gone to Indian Bank’s ATM at Khirki Extn., Malviya Nagar to withdraw cash. One unknown boy was using one of the two ATMs. She withdrew Rs. 500/- from the second ATM and pressed ‘cancel’ button after the transaction but the machine did not accept it. Meanwhile, that boy told her that the transaction has already been cancelled. Relying upon him, she left for home. Within few minutes, she received an SMS about withdrawal of Rs. 10,000/- from her account. She returned to ATM but that boy was not found there. In this regard, a case vide FIR No. 343/2015, dated 21.02.15 u/s 420 IPC was registered at PS Malviya Nagar and investigation was taken up by local police. 

 

   Several similar incidents of cheating/theft have also occured in various parts of Delhi & NCR on which, the culprits targated ladies, older and illetrate persons by duping them on the pretext of assisting them while making transaction at ATMs. To check this trend, a team of Central Range led by Insp. Devender Kumar consisting of SIs Ved Prakash Rai, Virender Singh, Virender Tyagi, Devender Singh, ASIs Jaswinder Singh, HCs Naresh, Sanjay Tyagi, Virender, Vikram, Cts Vipin, Harender, Shadev, Lalit, Surya Prakash, Manish and W/Ct. Sarvjeet Kaur was constituted under the supervision of ACP Sukhvinder Singh and overall supervision of DCP M.A. Rizvi to nab the culprits. The team worked diligently and gathered information about the gangs involved in such crimes.

   On 27/02/2015, secret information was received by Ct. Surya Prakash that a gang headed by one Abbas Khan r/o Sarai Kalen Khan involved in such incidents would come near Millenum Park, Outer Ring Road along with his associates. Acting upon the tip of information, the police team lead a trap at the place of information. At the given time, 5 persons arrived there in three cars who were promptly apprehended by the team on the pointing out of secret informer. They confessed their involvement in the above mentioned case.

  On sustained interrogtion, they confessed their involvement in more than 50 cases and the following 14 cases have been linked so far:

Sl. No.	FIR No.	Date	U/S	Police Station
1.	316/15	19.02.15	420 IPC	Malviya Nagar
2.	343/15	21.02.15	420 IPC	Malviya Nagar
3.	85/15	14.01.15	420 IPC	Malviya Nagar
4.	142/15	23.01.15	420 IPC	Malviya Nagar
5.	267/15	12.02.15	420 IPC	Malviya Nagar
6.	117/15	12.01.15	379 IPC	Mehrauli
7.	692/14	26.09.14	420/34 IPC	Ghazipur
8.	283/14	25.04.14	420 IPC	Ghazipur
9.	183/14	19.02.14	420 IPC	Hauz Khas
10.	507/14	11.05.14	420 IPC	Hauz Khas
11.	1137/14	04.12.14	420/34	Kalka Ji
12.	1138/14	04.12.14	420 IPC	Kalka Ji
13.	88/15	18.01.15	420 IPC	Saket
14.	148/15	03.02.15	420/379 IPC	Saket

           

(1)              Abbas Khan @  Rakesh Solanki  (29 yrs) s/o Sh. Azad Khan r/o Near Esaque Masjid, Sarai Kale Khan, Delhi (Permanent Add.-VPO Sahpur Kalan, Distt. Bulandshahar, UP was born in village and he has studied up to 8^th standard. He had come to Delhi in the year 2000 and started committing crime due to bad company. He is the gang leader and was earlier arrested in Agra in a similar case of cheating.

(2)              Kamal Upadhyay (30 yrs.) s/o Late Heera Ballabh Upadhyay r/o Sangam Park, Khoda, Ghazipur, Delhi (Permanent Add. Vill.-Pihoha, Distt.- Almora, (Uttrakhand) was born in Delhi and he holds a diploma in Auto mobile engineering from Punjab. He started working as technical head in a workshop in Noida where the gang leader Abbas used to come to get his car repaired. He also joined Abbas to make easy money. He owned a Santro car, which was used by the gang in crime.

(3)     Arun Kumar (23 yrs) s/o Sh. Ganga Ram r/o Vill- Bhawapur, Ghaziabad, UP (Permanent Add.- Vill- Barwan, Distt. Hardoi, UP) was born in his village. He left studies in 8^th standard and started assisting his father who works a washer-man in Kaushambi, Ghaziabad, UP. Later, he fell into bad company and started committing crime to make quick bucks.

(4)     Sanjay (23 yrs) s/o Raj Kumar r/o Shahid Bhagat Singh Mohalla, New Usman Pur, Delhi was born in Delhi and is a 10^th class school dropout. Earlier, he joined a private firm but turned to crime to meet his lavish lifestyle. He is previously involved in 2 criminal cases.

(5)     Sandeep Dedha (24 yrs.) s/o Hari Chand r/o B-226, Ghazipur, Delhi was born in village Ghazipur, Delhi and has studied up to 12^th class. Thereafter, he left his studies and started a private job but earnings from his job was not enough to meet his expenses. Then, he came in contact with Abbas and started committing crime.

The accused persons are alcoholic and fond of going to pubs/discos.

The gang members target ladies, older and illiterate persons. They strike in group whereas only two of them would enter the ATM booth. They would offer help to the gullible card holder in facilitating his transactions and would manage him to leave while his account is still logged-in for making further transactions. Then, they would withdraw money from his account. Besides, they would procure PIN of the card holder and exchange his ATM/debit card with the dummy card possessed by them.

RECOVERY

1)     3 cars used in the commission of crime.

2)     8 Dummy/Fake ATM Cards.