Mumbai, The anti-terrorism squad (ATS) claimed to have busted a fake SIM card racket with the arrest of three persons from Jogeshwari on Saturday. This is the fifth fake SIM card racket to be detected in the city in the last four months. Acting on a tip-off, ATS sleuths raided Chaurasiya Communication near Ghaswala compound in Jogeshwari and arrested Manoj Chandan Singh, Ram Manohar Lalbahadur and Kaushal Sharma. Investigators said the trio has been selling active SIM cards without any verification. ATS chief Rakesh Maria said 175 SIM cards, 17 demo cards, seven rubber stamps, 23 photographs of different persons and PAN cards were recovered from the trio. The perpetrators of last year's July 13 triple blasts had used fake SIM cards to execute the terror attacks. The accused used to make copies of original documents submitted by customers, said the police, adding that they would then paste photographs of different people to create fake identification documents. The trio used these bogus papers to activate SIM cards. "We are now looking for more than 60 persons who had purchased fake SIM cards from the accused," said Maria. Last month, the police arrested SIM ...
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