Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (MS)

Mangaluru, Oct 29: The CEN crime police of the city arrested three people, natives of Poornia district of Bihar on the accusation of siphoning off money from bank accounts of people through hacking of AEPS (Aadhar Enabled Payment System) in the sub-registrar office.

During the last six months money from bank accounts of those who got their properties registered in the city sub-registrar’s office were siphoned off by cyber fraudsters. However, many complaints were received by the CEN crime police and 10 cases were registered in the last two months.

A special team was formed to investigate these cases under the direction of city police commissioner, DCP (law and order), DCP (crime and traffic). The team took into custody three accused from Poornia district of Bihar on October 22.

The accused illegally obtained records from Cauvery-2.0 website related to registration of properties, got the Aadhar card and biometric details (thumb print) and scanned the fingerprint through a scanner and got the money transferred to their bank accounts.

The accused arrested are identified as Deepak Kumar Hebram (33), a resident of Supaul district in Bihar, Vivek Kumar Biswas (24), a resident of Araria district in Bihar and Madan Kumar (23), a resident of Araria district in Bihar.

A sum of Rs 360242 from 10 bank accounts of the accused has been confiscated by the police. Mobile phone handsets of the accused have also been taken into custody by the police and technical verification is being done. As of now PDF of more than 1000 registration  papers of Karnataka state and more than 300 PDF of registration papers of Andhra Pradesh and other states are stored in the mobile phones.

The accused will be taken to Bihar for further spot verification and collection of additional documents.