India, March 18 -- Suspicious of three men who kept opening new accounts at a nationalized bank branch, staffers at the Thane branch tipped off the police, which led to the discovery of a fraud and the arrest of the trio.

Investigations revealed that the three would fraudulently acquire Aadhaar cards, morph their pictures on them and provide them to cyberfrauds for a 20% 'transaction fee'.

The accused also managed to secure loans from banks using the fake documents. Upon receiving the tip-off, police raided a dormitory in Fort and arrested the three accused and recovered 95 Aadhaar cards, several PAN cards and pass books of various banks. The arrested accused were identified as Umesh Darshan, 32, a truck driver, Aman Kumar Dillip Prasad...