Lankan interrogated in Chennai:

Indian Police hunt for 20 agents of credit card racket kingpin

Indian Police have obtained information about a key associate and 20 sub-agents who were working for Vijaykanth, a Sri Lankan running a credit card racket for over seven months in Chennai.

Vijaykanth's interrogation after he was caught on Thursday revealed that he had collected more than Rs 50 lakh using fake credit cards.

Vijaykanth had managed to get details pertaining to foreign credit cards after paying his contacts in Canada and other countries. He produced many fake credit cards using an encoding machine.

Valuables worth over Rs 50 lakh were purchased using the cards, police said.

"We are verifying whether Sasi, who introduced Vijaykanth to the trade, was involved in similar rackets before being murdered in Sri Lanka.

"No case is pending against Sasi," a senior police officer said.