KOLKATA: When Rakesh Kumar Sharma flew in from Jaipur and checked into room 245 of a star hotel in Esplanade as Doordarshan's crime reporter on Wednesday evening, he couldn't gauge his time was up. Sharma, 32, suspected to be a millionaire kingpin of an inter-state credit card cloning racket, wasn't aware that he had flown into a "trap" laid carefully by Kolkata sleuths since March. The behind-the-scenes man, who perfected a modus operandi to bleed credit card holders — and their issuing banks — to several crores, will now cool his heels in Lalbazar central lockup for the next 12 days as cops try to crack what appears to be the biggest credit card cloning racket busted in India since...
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