By Photo: Representative Image (www.citifmonline.com). A 24-year-old Indian man, accused of forgery, will serve three years in prison. The defendant, who was working as a salesman in a mobile shop, reportedly took advantage of a coloured copy of an ID belonging to a stranger to issue 19 SIM chips to customers, according to court file
A 24-year-old Indian man, accused of forgery, will serve three years in prison.
The defendant, who was working as a salesman in a mobile shop, reportedly took advantage of a coloured copy of an ID belonging to a stranger to issue 19 SIM chips to customers, according to court files.
It is claimed that the Indian was in possession of the copy, which was of a Pakistani man’s ID, and he had exploited it to sell the chips for several buyers in the year 2014.
He was arrested following a tip-off to police. “I made the copy of the Pakistani man’s ID upon his request when he visited me once. He said he would return to collect it but he didn’t,” the defendant began in his statement.
“After a few days, a Bahraini came to me and requested to buy chips to a telecommunications company in Bahrain but he claimed he didn’t have an ID. Therefore, I decided to issue the chips using the copy of the Pakistani man’s ID.
“Several expats who arrived recently also came to me and I sold them chips using the same ID copy in a bid to make their life easier.”
The 24-year-old defendant claimed that he wasn’t aware that what he was doing against the local regulations and he could be prosecuted because of it.
Several bombings took place in Bahrain during the past four years with the use of mobile phones as detonators. The devices were operating by SIM chips issued using departed Asian men’s ID.
