Gang involved in cheque forgery unearthed

With the arrest of four persons, Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UPSTF) has unearthed a gang allegedly involved in withdrawing cash from several people's bank accounts by cloning their cheques, police said here.
The accused, identified as Gagan Sehgal, Dharmesh Kumar, Ashish Sood and Bobby Choudhary were arrested from Delhi yesterday, they said.
The gang was active in Delhi-NCR region and other states including Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra for some time, they said.
Their activities came under the scanner when Ravi Kumar Tiwari, branch manager of Axis Bank, Sector Alfa-1, filed a complaint on April 25 about some people cloning the cheque of an account holder and withdrawing Rs 8 lakh from the account, Triveni Singh, additional SP (UPSTF), said.

Police had arrested two persons Rahul Kumar Singh and Vikram Pratap Singh on April 26, and following the leads from the duo police apprehended the other gang members yesterday, he said.
During interrogation, Sehgal, the alleged kingpin of the gang, said that they used to visit different banks and would get details of accounts and prepare clone cheques using coral draw software, he said.
Police have recovered a car, two laptops, one printer, 10 mobile phones, 20 cloned cheques worth Rs 2 crore, and five cheque books from their possession, he said.