MUMBAI: The city police have busted a major fake SIM card racket suspected to have international terror links with the arrest of three persons including two sales executives of two mobile service providers.
2,173 SIM cards, eight high end mobile phones, thousands of fake Adhar card, PAN cards and other government documents which 26 year old accused Sharif Khan procure to activate these cards have been seized from his house in Govandi in eastern suburbs. Two territory sales executive of the two service providers have been identified as Atin Vast alias Sharma (29) and Dharmandra Bangari (31).
Police have also recovered a personal diary of Khan in which there are 24 pages containing several code words against various foreign names of foreign countries viz Afghanistan-1, Indonesia-1, Mynmar-2, Pakistan-1, China-1 etc. Now our focus will be to decode these codes and his emails and his facebook through which he was coordinating with various people globally.'' Said Dhananjay Kamlakar, joint commissioner of police (law and order).
Looking into the sensitivity of the case Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria has set up a Special Investigating Team (SIT) and have included officers from crime branch as well the Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) and Cyber cell to probe the terror angle.
The scam came to light after Ansar Pirzade, the senior inspector of Trombay police got a tip off that some people were selling sim cards to people without any verification of documents. Based on this tip off we send bogus customer and when we got confirmation, our team laid a trap and arrested him and during his interrogations we learnt the involvement of two sales officers of the service providers.'' Said Pirzade.
Though the private sources said that prima facie it appears to be a case of exaggerating sim cards sales and later porting the group from one service provider to another but police is not convince with it and want to explore the terror angle. Deputy commissioner of police Sangarmsingh Nishandar said that the modus operandi of the accused was to forged Adhar card, PAN card and other government documents to procure a SIM card.
In the mobile SIM card form he would stick somebody's photo with fake addresses, with fake adhar card and other documents and the same set documents was used with some other names etc. We will also be calling around 1,770 people to whom he had sold this active SIM cards without taking documentation. We only fear that it should not fall in the hands of anti social elements'' said Cherring Dorje, additional commissioner. He added that Khan was running the racket since last six months. During investigations it is learnt that Khan was earlier arrested by Navi Mumbai police and Bandra in theft and house breaking cases.
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