The Government Railway Police dismantled a specialized interstate criminal gang on Tuesday that targeted rail travelers across major transit terminals by applying industrial adhesive into automated teller machine card slots to steal debit cards and customer authentication pins.
Railway police teams intercepted three prime gang operatives aboard the Patna Express at Mughalsarai junction following weeks of surveillance and CCTV forensic tracking. The gang’s modus operandi involved inserting adhesive strips into ATM card readers at railway stations, causing victims’ cards to become physically trapped inside the dispensing terminal.
While frustrated travelers attempted to retrieve their stuck cards, a bystander gang member posing as a helpful fellow passenger would observe the victim typing their secret PIN. Once the passenger departed to lodge a complaint with station authorities, the perpetrators used specialized extraction tweezers to recover the jammed plastic card and immediately emptied bank balances at adjacent cash dispensers.
Police recovered sixty-eight debit cards issued by various public sector banks, miniature skimmer readers, and cash exceeding four lakh rupees during the transit arrests. Railway authorities issued security alerts advising travelers to avoid utilizing isolated station ATMs and to immediately block compromised cards via mobile banking apps.
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