Vadodara: illegal telephone exchange that can be used for terror activities or extortion is divided in the city of Borsad in Anand.
Branch of local crime from Police Anand caught two men, who claimed to be a caregiver from this exchange which was regulated using four SIM boxes, 61 SIM cards and five WiFi routers, on Wednesday.
LCB Sleuth carried out a tip-off attack and arrested the duo identified as Babar Ali Ansari and his cousin Mir Faisal Ansari.
However, the Duo said that they only took care of the unit in their homes for monthly rent to RS 40,000 while the operator was a man named Jalael in Dubai.
The previously activated SIM card was found from them bought from West Bengal and Odisha.
COPs suspect that real documents can be used to buy a SIM card.
During interrogation, the two defendants said they arranged the exchange after touching someone through Facebook more than a year ago.
After they agreed to set the unit, they received all devices and SIM cards through couriers and maintain functional exchanges for almost a year.
“Through this technology, all international calls can be made to look like local calls, over international tariffs and make service providers cause losses.
So, there will be losses for public maintenance as well and imitation violations are also committed,” said LCB Inspector Kg Chaudhary.
But the police, widened the scope of their investigation to find out whether the exchange was used to make extortion calls or terror activities.
“We followed a few instructions and also investigated it if every call of extortion was made,” another police official said.
The police said that to get more information about Jalael, more details will break down.
The cyberspace crime police subsequently investigated the case after cheating violations and criminal conspiracies, and violations of the Information Technology Act, Indian Telegraph Law and Indian wireless telegraph laws registered at the Cyber Anand Crime Police Station.
Illegal exchange with a broken SIM box
