Card fraud for air fares - Calcutta Telegraph

A staff REPORTER

Sleuths of the Criminal Probe Department (CID) arrested a young person on Thursday for online purchase of air tickets against person else’s recognition card number.

Keying in recognition card inside information of Sudipto Nandi, a occupant of Konnagar, in Hooghly, Sashi Turi had booked air tickets worth around Rs 16,000 from the airline’s site.

According to Rajeev Kumar, the deputy sheriff inspector-general of police force (operations), CID, Nandi learnt about the fraud from a textual matter message sent by the depository financial institution that had issued him the recognition card.

“He immediately lodged a ailment with our cyber law-breaking wing, as he had never made any online purchases,” said Kumar, adding that the figure of ailments about recognition card fraud have increased in the past few months.

The sleuthhounds got in touching with the air hose and collected the PNR figure of the tickets and the inside information of the riders with those tickets.

“But the computer addresses were fake. So we went to the airdrome on the day of the month of the journey. A couple with their kid were travelling on the tickets,” said a CID official.

During questioning, the rider told the bulls he had paid a traveling agent in hard cash for the tickets. When the bulls zeroed in on the traveling agent, he named Sashi. “The traveling agent had paid Sashi hard cash to purchase the tickets, but the immature adult male used Nandi’s recognition card inside information and made online bookings,” said the official.

During interrogation, Sashi confessed that he had got the card inside information from an associate. “It looks there is a racket that steals people’s recognition card inside information and runs with it,” said the official.