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With the setting up of Regional Vigilance Telecom Monitoring Cells at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), to vigorously detect the illegal international calls, illegal exchanges operating from various nooks and corners of the country, have been detected and busted with the help of Local Police, wherever they are existed and being operated upon. This time the efforts yielded the result of cracking down an illegal exchange at Ernakulam (Kerala). The reason attributed to the fast detection is the recently provided Toll free numbers- 1600-110-420 or 011-2373-1100 for the general public to pass on the information about the grey international calls. As general public have volunteered themselves and pass on information on such illegal calls on the Toll Free Telephone Numbers the Regional Vigilance Telecom Monitoring Cells immediately trap the wrong doers instantly.
In the present case of Ernakulam also it was mainly on the information received on toll free number. A number was detected carrying international call but with domestic CLI in Ernakulam area. On investigation, it was found that the number which was presented as CLI was working at a building in the M.G. Road area of Ernakulam. Immediate action was initiated and the DoT officials raided the premises with the help of Local Police and busted the illegal set up. The set up consisted of sophisticated telecom equipment -- two ISDN PRI lines and 1 Mbps broadband internet leased from M/s Reliance. The number reported was found at the premises operating as pilot number for the ISDN connection. Though two persons were apprehended from the site the police are on the look out for the real culprits engaged in the illegal operation both in India and abroad.
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