Two held in Pratapgrah for ATM fraud, 6 cards found

Prayagraj:

Mandhata

police arrested two persons accused of

ATM

fraud in Pratapgarh district late Friday evening. Both the nabbed persons have been sent to jail on Saturday after registering of an FIR in this connection.SP-Pratapgarh Satpal informed TOI that during a checking drive undertaken after a tip-off on Friday evening near Baharia Mode of Mandhata area, the police team caught the accused. The two persons were travelling on a bike who were involved in illegally withdrawing money from ATMs using sophisticated devices. During the search, six ATM cards of different banks and two card reader machines were recovered from them. During interrogation, the accused were identified as Deepak Saroj, a resident Lakhapur village of Mandhata and the other

Arun Saroj

, a resident Baharia village of Mandhata. According to the police, both are hardcore ATM thugs who used to roam near different banks and ATMs, and on seeing simple people, used to fraudulently exchange their ATM cards with their own set of different ATM cards. They then used to sweep the cards on their card reader machines and stealthily remember their PIN code and later withdraw money from their accounts using this illegally gained information.