EGAL LEPHONE CHANGE RACKET EARTHED, 2 RRESTED

The Uttar Pradesh -Terrorism Squad (ATS) on day unearthed an illegal net calling racket after the st of two people from a tam Buddha Nagar mall, senior police officials here. e officials said the ATS ths seized two terminal s, SIM cards, three modem ers, a laptop, internet port, a connector power station and other peripheral devised for operating the illegal hone exchange. A senior UP official said all these devices used by the racketeers to t international calls to SIM s and then to local mobile bers to make it appear as if alls were originating from a number. hrough this method, the eteers managed to do calling out using the national gateand subsequently without ing on the radar of national ligence agencies. Such illeelephone exchanges are g used by the terror opera, hawala (international illeoney transaction) network other criminal groups,” the ial said. e said those arrested were tified as Abhay Mishra alias ya and his accomplice ms Tahir Khan. He also said ya had opened an all-soluservices centre at a rented of a mall and he actually it to run an illegal telee exchange. e official said Aditya was ating the illegal telephone ange for the past few ths. He said Aditya used to ct money from the callers outing their calls through legal exchange and make it ar as local.“he later used to sfer the collected money to rent accounts through interbanking and e-wallet,” he d. e said other national investion agencies had been med about the arrest . ATS trying to get the police cusremand of the arrested men urther interrogate them t their suspected involvet in facilitating terror and inal groups in making calls ferent places, he said..