Two arrested for running an illegal call center in Kolkata

KOLKATA: Bidhannagar police broke in an illegal call center in Salt Lake and arrested two persons on Monday evening on charges of diverting international internet calls to Indian phone numbers by going round the legal connection gateway, which caused revenue loss to the Union government.

The accused, Mohit Singh (29) and Mohammed Shadaab (28) were
arrested from their Salt Lake office after an FIR had been lodged with
Bidhannagar cyber crime police station by a senior official of the department of telecommunications, Government of India.

The accused, who were booked under the Indian Telegraph Act and IPC sections dealing with the copying of the signature and cheating, were produced in a Salt Lake court on Tuesday and remanded in three-day police custody.

Cops said that apart from the revenue loss, the accused posed a threat to national security by diverting the calls illegally.

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News source: Times of India

Update by Bidisha Roy Choudhury