Four arrested for selling sim cards on fake Aadhaar cards

Ahmedabad: Acting on information from the department of telecommunication (DoT) of

Gujarat

, CID Crime officers arrested four men from Morbi district on May 28 for allegedly selling

sim

cards based on forged Aadhaar cards, said officers on Tuesday.DoT Director Sumit Mishra said that the field units of Department of Telecommunications - Licensed Service Area (LSA) carry out monthly sample audit of the application forms submitted by subscribers to telecom service providers to obtain mobile connections.During a recent audit by Gujarat LSA, certain specific patterns were observed which indicated the use of fake Aadhaar cards to obtain sim cards. After a detailed analysis, more than 8,100 such mobile numbers were identified and blocked.Based on this information, a team of CID Cybercrime police from Gandhinagar raided a mobile sim shop in Tankara town of Morbi district.The cops arrested Nilesh Zinjuwadia, 29, Dharmesh Bhasadia, 22, Haresh Sakaria, 20, and Hitesh Dhedhi, 32 and booked them for cheating and forgery along with the charges under the Information Technology (IT) Act.In March, the CID (crime) had booked five persons caught for the same offence in Gir Somnath district.
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