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Based on information given by Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited the Delhi Police have busted two illegal telephone exchanges in the operation simultaneously carried out at Delhi and Ghaziabad. The Vigilance Telecom Monitoring Cell, formed by the DoT, in coordination with the telecom operators is detecting and monitoring the fraudulent activities. During such exercise, it was detected that huge international incoming calls were being distributed through the public switch telecom network misusing fixed wireless terminals. In the present cases the raids were made at Rishab Vihar in Delhi and at Ram Prastha in Ghaziabad.
The illegal telecom setup was being used to receive international calls from USA and European countries through Internet. In Rishab Vihar case, 14 CDMA fixed wireless terminals were interfaced with the Internet leased lines while it was 17 CDMA in the case of Ram Prastha for routing such international calls. This was bypassing the authorised international long distant operators in India, thereby causing huge loss to the telecom operators and the Government besides posing security risk, as these calls were beyond the scope of lawful monitoring.
The Police have arrested one person in this connection and are further investigating the case to find out the involvement of any other Indian and Foreign partners.
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