Two DU grads among three held for fake SIMs

NEW DELHI: Extortionists and owners of illegal call centres spent Rs 3,500 to get SIM cards made with IDs of unsuspecting customers. Two DU graduates and the promoter of a mobile company generated these SIM cards and ran this ring, until seven people, including the masterminds, were caught by the Delhi Police from northwest Delhi’s Maurya Enclave.

The two masterminds, Mohammad Shakeel and Ramji Patel, used to run mobile shops at Kannauj in UP. They had roped in one Vishal, who used to work as a promoter for a mobile company. Vishal roped in a few salesmen of the different mobile companies, identified as Pankaj, Rachit, Manish Daima and Prince Hinduja.

DCP (northwest) Vijayanta Arya said that the role of some officials of the mobile phone companies are also under scanner. Cops recovered 203 SIM cards of different companies and 12 mobile phones that were used to activate them. “They used to target customers from the village areas in Kannauj and made copies of their ID proofs without their knowledge,” said Arya.