Information About Incident 60783-121570-308418 in Lucknow India

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Acting on a tip-off that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were purchasing bulk SIM cards from a gang of miscreants on fake identification proofs, crime branch of Lucknow Police on May 8 busted a SIM supplying racket, arresting two persons.

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Acting on a tip-off that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were purchasing bulk SIM cards from a gang of miscreants on fake identification proofs, crime branch of Lucknow Police on May 8 busted a SIM supplying racket, arresting two persons. The crime branch sleuths also recovered over three-dozen activated SIM cards and 82 customer application forms from their possession. The arrested persons were identified as Ram Kumar Kannaujia, a resident of Bazaarkhala Police Station area and Kapil Dixit, a resident of Alambagh Police Station area. It was only a couple of days back that inspector at crime branch Sanjay Rai received a tip-off from the Maoist affected areas of Bihar and UP that CPI-Maoist cadres were purchasing SIM cards on fake IDs from a few miscreants in Lucknow. The cops said that around 375 fake IDs were also recovered from the possession of the two miscreants.

Event ID Date Country Storyhead
60783-121570-308418 5/10/2012 India Two arrested for supplying SIM cards to Maoists in Uttar Pradesh

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