Two brothers arrested for operating websites with people’s personal data

Mumbai: Two brothers from Mulund have been arrested for allegedly developing two websites that could provide personal details like Aadhaar numbers, residential addresses, email information etc., of scores of people by simply searching the person’s name or contact number.

The Mumbai Crime Branch found that both the websites contained details of people from Maharashtra, Gujarat and Delhi, and the accused were sharing the ID and passwords to the customers of the website – mostly loan-providing agencies, in exchange for money.

The arrested accused, identified as Nikhil Suryaprakash Yeligatti, 23, and his elder brother Rahul Yeligatti, 26, both reside in Navghar area in Mulund East. They have been booked under sections 379 (theft), and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the Information Technology Act. They were produced in court and remanded in police custody till December 4 for further investigation.