Tripura: Court remands Haryana youth to police custody in ATM fraud case
Agartala/UNI: A local court in North Tripura today remanded a 23-year-old Haryana youth to three days police custody arrested yesterday in Dharmanagar town on the charge of cloning ATM cards, a police official said.
The local people apprehended the youth, identified as Sunny Biddu, while he was found roaming around suspiciously near an ATM booth with a machine and handed him over to the police. During interrogation Biddu admitted to stealing money from several ATMs in Guwahati and New Delhi but managed to remain out police net.
Superintendent of Police (North Tripura) Bhanupada Chakraborty said, one Mini DX 5 machines and some other tools were recovered from his possession and added that Sunny is a student of diploma engineering in a Delhi institute. He hails form Dharma Kheri of Hissar district of Haryana and has been involved in ATM frauds and stealing money for past few months.
“We have written to Delhi and Assam police as well about Sunny’s arrest and to learn more details about his criminal antecedents,” Chakraborty said. He also stated that Sunny confessed that he used to scan the card details standing in a close distance by the machine and later on he duplicate the ATM card.
Police booked him under section 382 (B) of IPC and suspects the involvement of his family in the crime. According to reports, within few hours of his arrest, his mother and grand mother reached Dharmanagar to bailing him out.
Meanwhile, police are also interrogating two Turkish and two Bangladeshi nationals, who were arrested in West Bengal last November for stealing more than Rs 50 lakh from ATMs in Agartala using cloning devices, for the last two weeks.
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