Guwahati, June 6 (UNI) In a significant move, the Assam Police have attached the property of cyber criminal Shariful Islam worth over a crore rupees and sent a strong message to the cyber criminals that a similar fate awaits them.

Armed with an order by the Morigaon sessions court, the district and police administration of Morigaon district attached the property of Islam, a known cyber criminal who had amassed property with over crores of rupees by duping people.

Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime), of Morigaon Samiran Baishya said that the police, along with the district administration, have executed the order of the Morigaon sessions court to attach the property of Islam.

"It is the first such incident in Assam where the court has issued an order to attach the property of cyber criminals," Baishya said, adding that Shariful is absconding but operations are on to nab him.

"There were four cases registered against him. The Bharatiya Nyay Samhita (BNS) has the provision under Section 107 that the property of criminals can be attached," he said.

It may be mentioned here that Morigaon in Assam has become the "Jamtara" of Assam, with most of the cyber crimes being done by the criminals in the district.

Baishya said that the police are working to nail more cyber criminals in the district, and similar action will be taken against them also.

Baishya, who has been investigating the cyber crimes in the district, said that police have arrested 265 cyber criminals in the last two years from Morigaon who had been duping people of their hard-earned money.

Narrating on the modus operandi, he said that the criminals like Islam procured people's PAN card and made fake Aadhar card, which were later used to dupe people.

According to police records, Islam had been operating 16 bank accounts opened under different names. "We found that while the names and address of the account owners were different the photograph he used of himself. We have records that he has done transactions worth crores of rupees from these accounts," he said adding that police are now investigating other cases of cyber crimes also.

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