Operation Ghost SIM: How Military, Assam Cops Tracked Down Pak-Linked Racket
Guwahati:
Seven individuals have been arrested from throughout India for operating a pretend SIM card racket with hyperlinks to Pakistani brokers, the Assam Police stated. At the very least 14 extra individuals had been detained from Assam’s Dhubri district for questioning, the police stated.
To trace down the accused and smash the racket, the Indian Military and the Assam Police joined forces in ‘Operation Ghost SIM’ and tracked all of the accused throughout India.
The Assam Police first obtained intelligence from the military’s Gajraj Corps about an criminality involving the usage of pretend SIM playing cards from hideouts in Assam, Rajasthan, and Telangana, the police stated.
They used the pretend SIM playing cards to commit cyber crimes and anti-national actions together with serving to brokers in Pakistan obtain delicate info.
After getting intelligence from the military, the Assam Police’s Particular Department and the Particular Activity Pressure additional analysed the data earlier than deciding to launch ‘Operation Ghost SIM’.
The groups raided many locations throughout India concurrently, sources stated. Whereas separate groups went to Rajasthan and Telangana, others went to Assam’s Dhubri and Morigaon.
The joint operation launched on Could 16 resulted within the arrest of seven key accused, recognized as Saddik, 47, from PS Sikri in Rajaathan’s Bharatpur’; Arif Khan, 20, from Rajasthan’s Sahori Alwar; Sajid, 21, from Alwar; Akeek, 25, from Bharatpur; Arsad Khan, 34, from Bharatpur; Mofijul Islam, 19, from Dhubri, and Jakariya Ahmad, 24, from Assam’s Bilasipara.
The joint operation discovered 948 SIM playing cards and different digital units.
“The operation was launched within the afternoon on Could 16 and the seven individuals had been picked up from varied places and arrested in reference to the case,” Assam Director Normal of Police (DGP) Harmeet Singh stated.
He stated the SIM playing cards had been “not solely used for cyber but in addition for anti-national actions”. Mr Singh stated the “numbers have been shared throughout and are being utilized by anti-national components and inimical components to make use of WhatsApp accounts that look as if they’re India-based.
Additional investigation is happening.
