Mohali eatery worker arrested for cloning

Tribune News Service

Mohali, August 11

Punjab State Cyber Crime Cell sleuths have arrested one of the key accused in card cloning cases while three-four others are said to be rounded up in this connection.

The police are said to have arrested the accused, identified as Sourabh (around 28), at Banaras in Uttar Pradesh.

Though the officials of the state cyber crime were tight-lipped on the details in this regard, sources informed that Sourabh was working in a restaurant-cum-bar at Phase 5 and its name had cropped up in the case.

In their complaint to the cyber police, HDFC Bank authorities had pointed out Saurabh’s involvement in the case while stating that during their internal investigation it was revealed that the bar-cum-restaurant was the common point from where the card data of their customers (victims) had been compromised.

According to sources, Sourabh was a member of a 10-member Rockey Gang.

“The members of the gang work in different establishments at various places, including Delhi, Mumbai, Pune etc. They collect information of credit and debit cards of customers before looting their money through ATM/credit and debit cards fraud. They used to leave the state after committing a crime there,” said the sources.

Sourabh had already been lodged in jail in a card skimming case earlier, said the sources. He and his accomplices had left Mohali after withdrawing money from victims’ accounts this month.

According to an official of the state cyber crime, they have also rounded up three-four persons in this connection. “We are close to cracking the case and will arrest other members of the gang soon,” said a senior official of the state cyber crime.

Meanwhile, the accused was produced in court, which sent him to police custody till August 14.

Notably, nearly 20 persons had been defrauded of around Rs 25 lakh so far in the Mohali area, as per the state crime sleuths.