Three held for credit card fraud

Three people have been arrested in Haryana for credit card fraud, officials said on Saturday.

The Cyber Crime Cell arrested the three from neighbouring Faridabad district on charges of using fake credit cards.

The three men live in Faridabad and were attached to different private banks. They were identified as Sanjeev Kumar, 42, Manish Rao, 32, and Sachin, 24.

"They used to collect documents of customers visiting banks for loan, and obtained credit cards on the basis of forged documents," a police officer said.

The arrests followed a complaint in January by Hitesh Kumar, an assistant manager at one of the banks.

The complainant accused unknown men of preparing and using credit cards fradulently made in the name of Bhushan Joshi.

"They purchased gold, LED TVs and other items from Faridabad by using the fake credit cards," the police officer said.