The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has reportedly traced around 52,000 SIM cards which were issued with similar photos and several of them with the same address proofs.
The DoT personnel, who traced the fraud by utilising Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, asked the police of various States to trace the fake SIM cards and book the culprits.
“Acting on the complaints, we have registered three cases. We are making efforts to identify the accused and trace the SIM cards which are not active,” said NTR district Police Commissioner Kanthi Rana Tata.
