Student shops with stolen credit cards, held

LUCKNOW: One person was arrested in connection with purchasing cellphones from a store in a shopping mall in Gomtinagar on stolen credit cards. T
he arrested identified himself as Gaurav Robinson of Indiranagar. According to the police, Gaurav is pursuing his BCA.

The police recovered from the accused two cellphones that he had purchased on the credit cards that belonged to Vikas Jhunjhunwala and Rakesh Verma. During interrogation, the accused revealed that he along with another aide of his, had snatched away the bag of a courier company employee (on September 25) which contained the credit cards he used to purchase the cellphones. Cops have even recovered the motorcycle used for executing the aforementioned loot.

Robinson told police that he along with two others has also been involved in several chain-snatching incidents in the recent past.

This is not for the first time that such a case has come to light where things have been purchased by using stolen credit cards. A couple of months ago three men were arrested by the district police as they were purchasing electronic appliances worth lakhs on a credit card that did not belong to them.

The arrested had identified themselves as Dhirendra Singh Chauhan, Abhinav Gupta and Amit Kumar Sharma. The incident was reported from Hazratganj police circle. According to the complaint lodged the accused in the case were purchasing laptops and other electronic appliances through a credit card which Amit Kumar claimed to be his own.

As one requires to give an identification proof in case of a purchase of more than Rs 10,000 by credit card, Amit was asked by the dealer to present his ID proof. Amit reportedly presented a forged ID proof which aroused the suspicion of the dealer and he informed the police. Later the three were arrested after a case was lodged against them.

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