Man held for selling pre-activated SIM cards on fake IDs

A man, who allegedly sold pre-activated SIM cards on fake IDs some of which were used by an espionage ring suspected to be backed by Pakistan’s ISI, has been arrested, police said on Monday.

The accused, Mohit Gupta (33) is a resident of Shakurpur in North-west Delhi, said police. “Gupta is an expert in computers and began to use his skills with the computer for creating fake IDs and activating SIM cards on these fake IDs and selling the same for anything between Rs 500-700,” Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav said.

Several fake IDs, blank Customer Acquisition Forms (CAFs) were recovered from Mohit. During the screening of his personal laptop, more than 1000 fake IDs and an equal number of photographs of different persons were found in a folder, Yadav said.

Gupta was arrested on Friday by the inter-state cell of the Crime Branch, said police. Gupta’s name emerged during the interrogation of Ankush Khandelwal, a resident of Sector 5 in Rohini, who also allegedly sold pre-activated SIM cards on forged IDs.