7 held for hacking accounts and stealing cash using fake SIMs

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January 13, 2016

Bengaluru, Jan 13: The sleuths of the Cyber Crime police station have arrested seven people, including a Deputy Manager of Axis bank, for allegedly siphoning off cash Rs 1.8 lakh by fraudulent means.

hackingPolice said that on December 29, S.R. Narasimhan, retired Chairman and MD of National Hydro Electric Power Corporation, filed a complaint stating that the service of his Vodafone mobile number was terminated on December 4. After that his Axis Bank savings account was hacked and Rs 1,80,3751 was debited from his account in 17 fraudulent transactions made by unknown people on the intervening night of December 4 and 5.

The complainant came to know that his prepaid mobile connection has been changed to postpaid one by using fake documents by some unknown person. A case was registered under the provisions of IT Act.

The police team, led by DySP M.D. Sharath, found that Gopikrishna alias Gopi, 30, a Deputy Manager of Axis Bank’s Peddapalli branch in Telangana, had conspired with three accused - Ramana alias Ramana Reddy, 45, Nageswara Reddy, 27, and Veerabrahmam alias Anand, 23, - and provided them the account details customers in Karnataka, who were maintaining huge balances in Axis Bank.

“Nageswara Reddy and Anand obtained duplicate SIM card of the complainant's registered mobile number with the bank from Vodafone Store, by submitting fake documents and also changed the plan. The staff at Vodafone Store issued the SIM card without verification. Later, the accused transferred the amount to different mobile numbers using mobile banking and the LIME wallet options of Axis Bank and later withdrew the amount from Axis Bank ATMs,” the police said.

“The other three accused - Ramesh, 30, Kiran, 33, and Padmaja, 35, - had helped Nageswara Reddy and his accomplices obtain more than 100 fake SIM cards of Reliance company. Kiran, a distributor, provided SIM cards for fake documents, while Padmaja was a retail SIM card distributor. The accused had taken duplicate SIM cards of various victims from BSNL, Vodafone, Aircel and other service providers. These providers had issued duplicate SIM cards without proper verification.

Investigations also revealed that the accused have also hacked SBI Buddy Application and transferred money. FIRs have also been registered in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, the police said. The police arrested all the seven accused within a week of filing the FIR.

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Suleman
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Wednesday, 13 Jan 2016

Next you will hear all those are released under bail.

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Kalaburagi, Feb 20: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Waris Pathan on Wednesday said that 15 crore Muslims can dominate 100 crore Hindus.

"The time has now come for us to unite and achieve freedom. Remember we are 15 crore but can dominate over 100 crores," said Pathan while addressing an anti-CAA rally here.

"They tell us that we have kept our women in the front - only the lionesses have come out and you are already sweating. You can understand what would happen if all of us come together," he said.

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Bengaluru, Jun 24: Dr K Sudhakar on Wednesday held a video conference with senior officials to review the preparedness for conducting of SSLC examinations safely which is beginning from Thursday.

"8,48,203 students will appear for the SSLC examination starting tomorrow in 2,879 centres across the state. All the guidelines issues by state government must be followed strictly" Sudhakar said in the meeting.

"It is the collective responsibility of officials of all departments to ensure that every student is safe, from the time he or she leaves home for the exam centre and returns home after the exams. The vehicles used to ferry students, where public transport is not available, must be sanitised properly. The surroundings near exam centres, exam halls, toilets must be sanitised properly. Social distancing must be maintained in the exam hall and mask must be provided to all students," he said.

The minister also said that since the students have been asked to arrive at exam centre at 7:30 in the morning, a small biscuit packet must be provided to each student so that they don't feel hungry during the exam and till they return home after the exam.

"Thermal scanning of every student should be done before allowing inside the exam hall. In case there is fever those students must be made to write exam in separate room. Separate exam halls must be arranged for students in quarantine areas and if it's not feasible they must be allowed to write exam in September. District administrations must disseminate information about precautionary measures taken to build confidence among parents," the minister said.

Sudhakar instructed the officials to work in coordination with the Education Department and other departments.

Stating that there are 458 containment zones in Bengaluru, the minister asked the officials to be extra cautious in these areas and make arrangements to ensure health department staff can take students to the nearest health center if anybody is found ill during the exam.

Education Minister Suresh Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary Javed Akhtar, Education Secretary, Secretary of Medical Education Department, BBMP officials, Health Experts and others were present.

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Mangaluru, Jan 8: Dakshina Kannada District In-Charge Minister Kota Srinivas Poojary, on Wednesday announced that the District Administration will organise the Karavali Utsava from January 10-19 at Karavali Utsava Maidaan here in the city.

The minister was addressing a press conference on Wednesday morning at the Deputy Commissioner’s office. He informed that a rally will march from Nehru Maidaan to Karavali Utsava Maidaan on January 10 to officially mark the inauguration of the utsava. 
The rally will be flagged off by Minister Kota Srinivas Poojary.

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