By IANS,
Bhopal: Police in Madhya Pradesh Police investigating the overseas call scam unearthed in the state’s Damoh district nearly a week ago have approached Interpol to trace the call details, police sources said Friday.
Police have also sent a team to the neighbouring Uttar Pradesh to trace those people whose numbers were detected from the call records of the SIMs in question,
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) telecom supervisor Mohammed Hussein, in collusion with other officials in the department, had allegedly issued five SIM cards, one of them with ISD facility, to the key person in the scam, identified as Nadeem.
Surprisingly, the services of the SIM card issued on a false identity proof was restored without clearing the outstanding amount of Rs.2.60 lakh (Rs.260,000). The connection was, however, again discontinued when the outstanding amount reached Rs.6.14 lakh (Rs.614,000). At this point the accused had a clash with the BSNL employees and the matter came to light, police said.
“On investigations, the police found that the SIM used in the process was issued in the name of a labourer, Dashrath Prajapati, and the user had talked for hours to a particular phone number from June 26 to Aug 21,” said Damoh Police Superintendent Dilip Arya.
Police also found that the accused were in touch with their point man at Liechtenstein in western Europe from where their calls were routed to various foreign countries including Congo, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Nauru, and several other places.
“We are also trying to find out whether their activities went against the nation’s security,” said Arya adding: “Our team is also tracing those people in the neighbouring Uttar Pradesh whose numbers were detected from the call records of the SIMs in question”.
“We have forwarded the international numbers to Interpol, Madhya Pradesh’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and UP Special Operation Group (SOG) to get details about the numbers that were dialled,” Arya said.
So far, police have rounded up six persons including BSNL employees.