UP: Gang uses toe prints to prepare Aadhaar to commit bank fraud; 7 held

Identity theft and fraud are common crimes but the Noida Police recently busted a gang that was using toe prints to create forged Aadhaar cards, which were further used by several people for fraudulently taking bank loans. The loan amount ran into crores but the police are yet to ascertain the exact scale or the number of people who used the forged Aadhaar cards.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Noida) Ram Badan Singh in an interview with PTI said the gang was busted and seven people involved in running it were arrested on Sunday by the Sector 63 police station officials who were investigating multiple complaints of forged identity cards being used for taking bank loans in their area.

"The gang used forged Aadhaar cards for getting people loan by misleading the banks. During investigation it came to light that some people who had previously taken bank loans but could not repay it had become blacklisted by banks and had poor Cibil scores," Singh said.


According to the Deputy Commissioner, the gang helped people by providing them with forged Aadhaar and PAN cards but they changed their modus operandi. The Aadhaar card requires the print of 10 fingers from each hand and they used only two fingers of the hand and the remaining eight digits of a foot.

He said the police have recovered web cameras, a laptop, a printer, a lamination machine, two computers and forged Aadhaar cards in huge quantities have been recovered from the gang's possession.

Those held have been identified as Deepak Kumar, Vishal Singh, Atul Gupta, Manish Kumar, Shivendra Singh alias Gautam, Mohit Kumar and Mohd Chand alias Nawab Rasheed, the police said.

An FIR has been lodged at the Sector 63 police station under relevant provisions of the law and the accused sent to judicial custody, the police added.

(With inputs from PTI)