LUCKNOW, Jan. 11 -- The UP Special Task Force (STF) has uncovered a major fake SIM card racket allegedly operating with the connivance of telecom company officials, following the arrest of a wanted accused from Mumbai who supplied pre-activated SIMs to cybercrime syndicates across the country, informed senior police officials in a press note shared on Saturday. The STF arrested Shihan Sheikh, a Rs.50,000 reward-carrying accused, from the Colaba area of Mumbai on Thursday. He has been brought to Uttar Pradesh on transit remand and booked in a case registered at Rajapur police station in Chitrakoot district. Sheikh is accused of being a key link in an organised network that fraudulently activated and sold SIM cards to gangs involved in digital arrest scams, stock market frauds, etc....