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The Vigilance and Telecom Monitoring Cell of DoT and the Chennai Police cracked down one illegal telephone exchange in operating in Aminjikarai area of Chennai. This crackdown follows within days after busting an exchange in T. Nagar area of the city. This illegal set up consisted of sophisticated telecom equipments like voice finders, ADSL routers, 8 telephone lines provided by M/s RIL, while five 512 Kbps internet bandwidth on DSL connection from M/s Bharti and another 512 Kbps and one 256 Kbps internet bandwidth on DSL connections from M/s VSNL. The police have caught red-handed one person, said to have been from Vijayawada, while he was stocking the equipment. This illegal set up was causing a revenue loss of Rs. 86 lakh to the Telecom operators in addition to loss of tax revenue to the Department. The illegal set up was bypassing the authorised and licensed international long distance operators, which was posing a threat to the national security as these calls could not be lawfully monitored.
The police have seized the equipment and further investigations are on to nab other offenders suspected to be involved in this operation both in India and abroad. This crackdown was as a result of the information received on the Toll Free No. 1600 110 420.
RM/AMA - 170105 Illegal exchange Chennai
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