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The accused have been identified as Deepak Kumar Hembram (33) a resident of Nayatola Karnpur in Supaul district, Vivek Kumar Biswas (24), and Madan Kumar (23), both from Araria District of Bihar. They were nabbed from Purnia district, police said.
It may be recalled that 10 cases have been filed in the CEN police station in Mangaluru regarding theft from the bank accounts of individuals who had registered their properties in the 6-month period of 2023 at the Sub registrar’s office in Mangaluru.
Police said that the accused illegally accessed the biometric (fingerprint) and Aadhaar information from the Kaveri 2.0 website used for the registration of property in Karnataka and used them for making unauthorized transactions through the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS).
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Furthermore, during the investigation, over 1000 registrations related to Karnataka state, as well as more than 300 PDF copies of letters from Andhra Pradesh and other states, were discovered in the possession of the accused, police added.
Further investigations are underway.