By IANS
New Delhi : Two people were arrested on charges of running an illegal telephone exchange in northwest Delhi, the police said Wednesday.
Delhi Police’s special cell nabbed Sanjay Rajvanshi and Satya Patnaik Tuesday, for allegedly running an illegal international long-distance (ILD) telephone exchange at their company N.G. Softech Pvt. Ltd in Sector-14 of Rohini.
The police said they recovered from the company office one VOIP gateway-cum-GSM channel bank having 128 SIM cards (60 SIMs of Hutch and 68 SIMs of Airtel), 30 unused Airtel SIM cards, three used Airtel cards, one internet broad band router, one ADSL router, one ethernet switch, eight external antennas and other articles required for running the exchange.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Alok Kumar said the two men were arrested on a complaint filed by the department of telecommunications (DoT).
“In a joint inspection with DoT officials, it was found that company has one more premises for running the illegal exchange. The set-up was being maintained and run by Rajvanshi and Patnaik,” Kumar said.
“The duo in their interrogation revealed that N.G. Softech Pvt. Ltd. had procured and installed this illegal exchange from Cistel Technology, Canada and Nelo telecom, US,” Kumar added.
The police official said the duo and others involved in operating the exchange were bypassing the authorized channel of the licensed service providers and were causing huge loss to the government.