Maharashtra: Illegal call centre busted in Navi Mumbai by DoT officials; three booked

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An illegal call centre was busted by the Navi Mumbai Police in Maharashtra and three people were booked in connection with the case, an official said on Friday, reported the PTI.

According to the PTI, a case has been registered against three persons for allegedly operating an illegal call centre in Navi Mumbai and allegedly causing a loss of Rs 5 crore to the government, police said on Friday.

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The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) raided a call centre operating out of an IT park in Rabale on Thursday and seized servers worth Rs 70,000, an official said.

A case under section 318(4) (cheating) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita and relevant provisions of the Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act and the Indian Telegraph Act of 1885 has been registered against suspects, he said, as per the PTI.

According to the police, the call centre, had been illegally routing international calls into India using VoIP and SIP trunk lines since April.

The unauthorised operation reportedly allegedly resulted in a financial loss to the government to the tune of Rs 5 crore, the official said.

Mephedrone worth over Rs 24 lakh seized; two held

Meanwhile, in an another incident, the Thane Police in Maharashtra seized mephedrone drugs worth more than Rs 24 lakh from Navi Mumbai and arrested two persons in this connection, an official said on Friday, reported the PTI.

The action was taken on Thursday by the Anti-Narcotics Cell of the Navi Mumbai Police's crime branch in Sanpada area and the two drug peddlers arrested in the case were identified as Salam Islam Khan (45) and Mohsin Aslam Khan (37), he said, according to the PTI.

"Based on a tip-off, the police conducted a raid at a place on the Palm Beach Road around 2 pm and seized 121 grams of mephedrone worth Rs 24.20 lakh from the duo," senior inspector Neeraj Chowdhary said, as per the PTI.

A case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act has been registered at the Vashi police station in this connection, he said, adding that a probe into the case was on.

(with PTI inputs)