Calangute/Panaji (Goa) : The three Delhi youths arrested in Goa for attempting to kill nakabandi constables back in their native, have today been booked for ATM skimming at two police stations in Calangute and Panaji.

 

 

Separate First Information Reports (FIRs) were registered based on complaints lodged by Lekhraj Mashelkar, legal advisor of Hitachi services. 

 

 

In Calangute, he alleged that one Yes Bank ATM machine at Porbowado, Calangute has been fixed with a skimmer. Accordingly, police examined the CCTV footage and to their surprise found that that they were the same gangsters who were arrested on Wednesday in an attempt to murder case. The police further attached the skimmer device fixed to the ATM card reader for investigation. 

 

 

The Calangute police has now taken their custody for further interrogation in the ATM skimming.

 

 

During the custodial interrogation, all the accused persons Vipin Sunil Dagar, aged 24 yrs, Praveen Surjay Dagar, aged 23 yrs both residents of Jharoda Kalan, New Delhi and Ajay Kumar Ahlawat, aged 22 yrs from Barhana, Jhajjar, Haryana  have confessed  their involvement in tampering the ATM machine by fixing a skimmer. 

 

 

“Police further conducted panchnama under section 27 of Indian Evidence Act and successfully recovered a Hyundai Creta car bearing No HR-14-N-6333 and from the car successfully recovered IP cameras, two batteries and circuits  which are used for setting a skimmer device .The vehicle has also been attached for probe,” PI Jivba Dalvi said.  

 

 

In another offense in the capital, the accused have allegedly fixed the skimming device at Axis Bank ATM. 

 

 

Delhi Police Sub Inspector Jasbir Singh who is camping at Calangute police station informed that there are four such offences registered against the accused persons in Delhi Cantt police station wherein the accused can be seen in CCTV footage and they are required in respective crimes. 

 

 

 

“The gangsters fix a bogus card reader on top of the genuine reader in the ATM, something which is known as a skimmer device. The device then secretly swipes credit and debit cards information when the customers slip their cards into the machines to pull out the money. The skimmer device stores card data using an  integrated magnetic stripe reader and also has a built in hidden camera designed to record the PIN number,” the PI explained.