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Guwahati, Jan 22 :Assam Police have busted an alleged cyber fraud racket with the arrest of five persons from Morigaon and Nagaon districts in connection with a large-scale banking scam that reportedly caused losses exceeding Rs 25 lakh.
The arrests were carried out during a late-night operation by a special team of Morigaon district police, acting on specific intelligence inputs. According to officials, the accused are suspected of defrauding Axis Bank by using forged and fabricated documents to illegally access bank funds.
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Coordinated raids were conducted across the jurisdictions of Laharighat, Moirabari and Dhing police stations, leading to the detention of all five suspects without incident.
The arrested individuals have been identified as Azaharul Islam (28) of Moirabari, Morigaon; Mahmud Hassan (28) and Rakibur Rahman (26) of Dhing, Nagaon; Rianud Zaman (21) of Laharighat, Morigaon; and Baharul Islam (34), also from Moirabari.
During the operation, police seized a substantial cache of materials allegedly used to execute the fraud. The recovered items include seven mobile phones, six debit cards, two cheque books, a passport, two bank passbooks, along with a PAN card and an Aadhaar card.
Investigators believe the documents and digital devices were used to create fake identities and manipulate banking procedures to siphon off money. Preliminary estimates place the fraud amount at over Rs 25 lakh, though officials cautioned that the figure could increase as the probe progresses.
Police sources said the accused are currently being interrogated to determine the full scale of the operation, identify other beneficiaries, and ascertain whether similar frauds were committed in other districts or involved additional banks.
Further arrests are not being ruled out as investigators work to unravel what appears to be a wider cyber-enabled financial fraud network operating across district lines.
