5 arrested in MP’s Jabalpur for selling 7000 SIM cards to fraudsters

Five people, including two former managers of different multinational telecom companies, have been arrested by Madhya Pradesh’s cyber cell police for activating about 7000 SIM cards in fictitious names and selling them to fraudsters across the country, officials said.

The accused include Rohit Bajaj, a resident of Indore, and Ritesh Kannojiya, Amit Soni, Ashfaq Ahmed and Nishant Patel, all from Jabalpur.

They were arrested on Monday under section 419 (punishment for cheating by personation), 465 (punishment for forgery), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 120 b (punishment for criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and under certain sections of information technology act, police said.