Overview

• Mumbai Police arrested 48-year-old Vivek Sabwal in Delhi’s Burari on July 7 and brought him to Mumbai to face fraud charges
• Authorities say he submitted forged Aadhaar, PAN, GST and company letterhead documents to port the late NCP leader’s SIM to a new card for cybercrime
• The Siddique family and Vodafone first spotted the fraud on June 25 after a telecom alert, prompting Arshiya Siddique to file an FIR at Bandra Police Station
• Sabwal, already out on bail for previous cybercrime cases, now faces multiple Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections including cheating, forgery and electronic fraud
• Mumbai Police are conducting digital and forensic analysis to uncover any wider conspiracy and have indicated further arrests may follow