Seven members of a gang have been nabbed along with 550 cheques of 52 banks, 62 banks, 19 cheque books, 10 ATM cards, a laptop, two printers, which were seized from the accused
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Seven members of a gang have been nabbed along with 550 cheques of 62 banks, 19 cheque books, 10 ATM cards, a laptop, two printers, which were seized from the accused. According to a report by India.com, the incident came to light when a prominent Worli-based firm's three cheques worth Rs 8.23 lakh were returned by the Corporation Bank stating that they were already honoured.
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The company's authorities then lodged a cheating complaint against the unidentified persons. After collecting the necessary details from the bank, police investigations traced Aakash Raj Mulchandani alias Sunil Kumar Singh (22) to Mira Road, who confessed during interrogation that he was part of a racket which had been duping banks with forged cheques.
Following this, six other accused namely, Aakash Harish Ratchandani (27), Kafi Abdul Shekh alias Sonu Yadav (30), Faizan Rahman Sheikh (30), Ashif Imam Khan (33), Kishore Kanoujia alis Pande (34) and Chandrakant Nangre (32) were arrested.
The modus operandi
According to police sources, Chandrakant Nangre, a courier firm employee, would photograph cheques sent by companies to clients via courier and send it to Faizan via WhatsApp, who would then forward it to Asif. Asif would duplicate the cheques, remove the account number and put another number belonging to Sunilkumar, with the aid of a computer and printer. The cheque would then be deposited and encashed.
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