Bihar man booked for duplicating Bengal woman's Aadhaar, creates bank account to con people

According to a senior police official, a case was registered against the accused at Suryawa police station on Saturday.

Bhadohi (UP), Aug 24 (PTI) A Bihar man has been booked here for duplicating a West Bengal woman's Aadhaar card, opening a bank account in her name, and cheating people of lakhs of rupees by handing out fake letters for admission to different medical colleges across the country, police said on Sunday.

The offence was committed between September 29 and November 16, 2023, according to police. (Representational Photo/HT)

The accused Rohit Ranjan alias Pankaj Kumar Sharma, originally a resident of Bihar's Gaya district but has been staying at Suryawa in Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi district, also bought a SIM card using the Aadhaar number of the woman, a labourer from West Bengal's Nadia district, they said.

According to a senior police official, a case was registered against Rohit at Suryawa police station on Saturday, on the basis of a report sent from Haringhaat police station in Nadia in this regard.

The offence was committed between September 29 and November 16, 2023, he said.

The case was registered under Sections 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust), 419 (punishment for cheating by personation), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 465 (punishment for forgery), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will, etc) and 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and the IT Act.

Bhadohi Superintendent of Police Abhimanyu Manglik said that Rohit, claiming to be a member of the Medical Council Committee in New Delhi, duped a Suryawa youth named Gufran of ₹10 lakh by handing out fake allotment and admission letters for a Kolkata Medical College.

Similarly, another youth was conned of ₹8 lakh, Manglik said.