Bhopal. The Kolar police station team of the capital has exposed the gang involved in buying and selling bank accounts fraudulently and arrested 3 accused. Transactions amounting to more than Rs 5 crore 56 lakh have been made from the two accounts of the accused in the last 3 months. Giving information, TI Sanjay Soni said that on December 19, 2024, information was received from Bank of Maharashtra Mandakini Kolar Road branch that an account holder Rahul Srivastava had come to their bank to close his account. Upon checking, it was revealed that transactions worth around Rs 3 crore have taken place from his two bank accounts in the last 2-3 months. Police suspected that the transaction may be related to cyber fraud. On the basis of suspicion, the account holder Rahul Srivastava alias Bablu Srivastava father Shanti Swaroop (42), resident of Chinar Seven Mile Borda Kolar Road was taken into custody and interrogated. He told that he had sold the access of his two accounts to Ghanshyam Singrole resident Kelkach Udaipura Raisen for Rs 40 thousand to be used for trading. Transactions worth lakhs are taking place in this. But when he reached the bank, he came to know that apart from these two accounts given by him, two more accounts in the name of Rahul and his wife Preeti have been opened online through DD in the name of Rahul and in the name of his wife Preeti. . But he and his wife are not aware of when these accounts were opened. Rahul expressed suspicion that Ghanshyam, who rented the accounts from him, has fraudulently opened two more accounts online using his documents and accounts, and these are being used in a different way. Rahul further told the police that Ghanshyam had told him that if he would get him to open a current account, he would get lakhs of rupees. To open karate accounts, Ghanshyam contacted Rahul, Nikita Prajapati, father Nimantram Prajapati (23), resident of Budni district, Sehore, hall address, Chhattisgarhi Colony Bagh Sewania and Nitish Shukla, father Dayashankar Shukla (26), resident of Police Station Road Behgan, district Singroli, hall address. , got it done from Chhattisgarhi Colony Bagh Sevaniya. Out of greed, Rahul had given the documents to Nikita Prajapati and Nitesh Shukla. On the basis of these documents, Ghanshyam, Nitish Shukla and Nikita Prajapati together got a fake Gumashta and shop establishment certificate prepared in the name of Siddhi Enterprises in the name of Rahul’s wife Preeti Srivastava. Whereas the firm named Siddhi Enterprises does not exist. In this way, all three opened two fake accounts and started using them illegally. After investigation, police registered FIR against accused Ghanshyam, Nitish Shukla and Nikita Prajapati under sections 318(4), 49, 336(3), 61(2) of BNS. Taking further action, the police team arrested the accused Nikita Prajapati and Nitesh Shukla from their house in Chhattisgarhi Colony Bagsevania. During interrogation, both the accused revealed that they work in making PAN cards, Gumashta, Food License, ITR, GST etc. in the name of NK Enterprises. And under the guise of this, while helping in creating fake accounts, Sunil Kumar used to earn money by selling the accounts purchased from others to Kakoniya and Nikhil. Police seized 3 card swipe machines, machine roll paper, 6 mobiles, 34 credit and debit cards, 20 cheques, 24 checkbooks, 6 passbooks, SIM wrappers, 77 SIM cards, 12 ATM pin wrappers, laptop, router, etc. from the possession of the accused. Cash worth Rs 8 lakh has been seized. In this case, account holder Rahul was also arrested for his involvement in fraud and mobile, 2 passbooks and other documents were seized from him. Police are making efforts to arrest other accused.