The Gurugram police have arrested three men for allegedly providing bank accounts to a cyber fraud syndicate that cheated people by offering fake helicopter bookings for the Char Dham Yatra. The police recovered five mobile phones, five bank passbooks, 16 cheque books and 18 ATM cards from their possession.

The accused were arrested on Wednesday. They were identified as Ajit Kumar Shah (30), a resident of Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh, Pradum (30), a resident of Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh, and Vinay (40), a resident of Sultanpur district in Uttar Pradesh. A case has been registered against them at the cyber police station (South).

During interrogation, the police found that each accused had updated the address on his Aadhaar card and opened more than 10 bank accounts in different banks. They allegedly supplied the cheque books, passbooks, ATM cards and other banking documents linked to these accounts to cyber fraud syndicates in return for a commission of Rs 5,000 for each bank account.

Vinay told investigators that he joined the operation at the behest of another person and later brought Shah and Pradum into the network. During the investigation, the police found three complaints registered on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal against the recovered bank accounts and mobile numbers.

“The accused are being questioned in detail about their role in the present case and other cyber fraud cases, the identities of their associates, financial transactions carried out through these bank accounts, and the wider cyber fraud network. The investigation is continuing,” said Gaurav Fogat, ACP Cyber).