Monday, September 27, 2010

Ahmedabad Crime Branch arrests two youth for using fake credit card

Two youths Kinjal Doshi (28) and Jay Joshi (21) were arrested in Ahmedabad by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch for using fake credit card. One of the accused had nine fake credit cards which he had brought from London, police told.

The accused are the residents of Satellite and Naranpura areas. The police informed, Doshi for fours years had worked as a deputy cashier in a London-based casino while his stay in the UK capital on a student visa.

The police said, Doshi, came to Ahmedabad on September 13, along with Jay he went to Central Mall at Ambawadi and purchased goods worth over Rs 7,000 using one of the cards. The officials of the Axis Bank, which had provided swipe machines at the complex, soon, detected that fake card has been used as in the transaction the cardholder’s name was not there. They alerted the mall authorities who in turn immediately informed the police.

Police has recovered the cards from the Doshi and said the card had magnetic strips most probably with the names of original card-holders or some code number, which enable the card to be swiped easily. Police is doing investigation.

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