With the arrest of four persons the Delhi police have claimed to have busted a gang involved in ATM fraud and recovered around Rs 15 lakh, one pistol and 16 cartridges.

Further around over 400 cards and three vehicles were also seized from the accused. They have found to have reportedly cheated 88 persons within in a week in the area of Tilak Nagar.

The accused were identified as Dharmendra Saini (38), Siddharth (30), Sunil Kumar (36) and Mayank Shukla (27). The police have recovered over Rs 15 lakh cash, 300 white cards for cloning, 85 used cards, 30 debit cards, small camera and several other high tech gadgets.

The mastermind of the gang namely Dharmendra and his associate Siddharth were previously involved in over three dozen cases of ATM fraud in Delhi, Jaipur and Mumbai, said the DCP Monika Bhardwaj (West).

The police scrutinized through the CCTV footages of the two ATMs from where the cash have been withdrawn, said the DCP adding that the accused were identified and arrested. During interrogation the accused disclosed that they used to target the ATMs where security guards were not deployed, while accused Mayank used to spray chemical on the CCTV camera of ATM, accused Saini used to install skimming machine, which saves the passwords of the person withdrawing money in the card reader from the ATMs and later a card was cloned which was used by the quadruplet, said the DCP.

Further the DCP added, "the accused used to cheat people just fortheir own lifestyle and bought these skimming machines from onlinestore, they also disclosed the locations of their installed machinesin Dwarka, Mahipalpur, Palam, District Centre and Vikas Puri area".