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The Cyber Crime Investigation Cell of CBI has unearthed an
illegal International Long Distance (ILD) Telephone exchange
consisting of 100 lines which was being operated from a premise
in Manimajra, Chandigarh for the past several months under
the pretext of a Call Centre. In this connection, CBI arrested
two persons, Rajender Garg, owner of the so-called Call Centre
and his employee, Vishal Attri on Sunday. After registering
a case under sections 120-B r/w 420, 379 IPC and Sections
20,21 and 25(c) of Indian Telegraph act, 1885, on the basis
of a complaint from the Vigilance and Telecom Monitoring Cell
of the Department of Telecom, Ministry of Communication, Government
of India, CBI raided the premise at Manimajra,Chandigarh and
recovered 112 SIM cards of various Cell Phone companies, ADSL
Modems, Cell Routers, Gateways, Modems, Channel Banks with
60 audio switch cards and telephone line wire of about 0.5
km length.
The SIM cards were purchased by the two arrested persons
in bogus names and through forged identity documents. Rajender
Garg had also taken a leased line of one Mbps from the Internet
Service Provider for his illegal set up as well as for the
Call Centre. The band width was being misused for illegally
re-routing international incoming calls to their respective
destinations showing them as domestic calls. This was being
done to evade payment of Access Deficit Charges (ADC) which
the ILD operators need to pay to the Government. Investigation
by CBI has revealed that a total amount of Rs.60 lakh was
received by Rajender Garg from overseas through wire transfer.
This amount was received as payment against Call Centre Services.
Initial estimates have shown that the illegal exchange has
caused a loss of Rs.three crore revenue to the exchequer.
The exchange was mainly used to illegal re-route international
incoming calls made to Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh.
The two arrested were produced before the designated court
in Chandigarh, yesterday. While the court remanded Rajender
Garg to two days police remand, Attri was sent to judicial
custody.
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