Sim cards issued to 86 using one photo

Ahmedabad: The Special Operations Group (SOG) of the city crime branch on Thursday filed a complaint against a man from Bodakdev area of the city for allegedly buying and activating 86 sim cards using a photo of a female co-worker.
According to an FIR filed with the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB), Jaymin Parmar, the accused, obtained these sim cards in the names of 86 women from a man who was selling them in Behrampura.
The FIR states that Parmar was running a call centre in Emerald Complex on CG Road in Navrangpura for a private bank to sell credit cards. A woman named Hetal Parmar, a resident of Saraspur, was his colleague there, said police sources.
Parmar used her pictures and identity proof documents of different women to get at least 86 sim cards issued. According to the police, he needed those sim cards to make calls to sell credit cards.
The FIR stated that Parmar had cheated the system by fraudulently obtaining the sim cards. Cops booked Parmar and another man, who was selling sim cards in Behrampura, for breach of trust, forgery, producing forged documents as genuine and abetment.
The SOG had also found two similar cases of obtaining sim cards fraudulently in Maninagar and Shah-e-Alam areas.
One arrested for sim sale racket
Vadodara cybercrime sleuths busted a racket of ‘exporting’ SIM cards to Dubai and arrested a man from Ahmedabad. Police said that the accused, identified as Ravindra Patel, used to procure SIM cards by using identity cards of different persons.
“Patel, who owns a shop in Ahmedabad, has been sending SIM cards to Dubai. He sent over 50 SIM cards to Dubai and they were delivered to a man who is involved in scams,” said Hardik Makadia, ACP (cybercrime).