Purnea authorities cracked down on recidivist crook Mohammad Imtiaz, whose hospital ownership masked ongoing ATM scams. Operating from Sahayak Khajanchi, he was pinned during a Gulabbagh heist involving card duplication and machine manipulation.
Sequence of events: Withdrawal glitch drew Imtiaz’s ‘aid.’ He tampered slyly, inserting a counterfeit into a neighboring ATM. Pin denial alerted a spectator, who reclaimed the authentic card amid gathering fury, culminating in vigilante justice subdued by arriving police.
Confiscated items included multi-bank cards, affirming serial offending with jail stints. From humble, unlettered origins, his scams funded a decade-spanning ascent to helming an unpermitted Line Bazar health center. With mercenary physicians and promoter proxies, profits flow ample—insufficient to deter dalliances with danger.
Pre-remand checkup at the medical college featured Imtiaz berating press, sauntering unchained before his handlers, a laxity not extended to peers. SHO Ajay Kumar detailed the ATM interference case, now under judicial lockup.
This brazen persistence amid affluence spotlights recidivism’s grip, advocating fortified ATM tech, public drills on skimming threats, and systemic intervention to dismantle such hybrid criminal enterprises masquerading as legitimate ventures.