Two arrested for running illegal telephone exchange racket
Acting on a tip-off, the ATS and Crime Branch officers raided a house at Mahidharpura in Surat and found an illegal telephone exchange racket being run from the location
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The police have declared Jigar, who is currently in Dubai, as a wanted person in the illegal telephone exchange case as well. (Representational Image)The Surat Crime Branch and the Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS), in a joint operation, arrested two persons late Monday for allegedly running a racket under which an illegal telephone exchange was used to convert international calls into local calls.
The police identified the two accused as Saurabh Sarkar (30) and Prem alias Bony Topiwala (31), the cousin of Jigar Topiwala, who was earlier arrested in Surat in an online cricket betting racket case. The police have declared Jigar, who is currently in Dubai, as a wanted person in the illegal telephone exchange case as well.
Acting on a tip-off, the ATS and Crime Branch officers raided a house at Mahidharpura in Surat and found an illegal telephone exchange racket being run in the name of Faction Broadband Internet company.
Surat Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) B P Roziya said, “Jigar topiwala was last year arrested in Surat in a cricket betting racket case. He later he went to Dubai and was running this illegal telephone exchange racket with help of his cousin. The gang converted international calls into local calls to aid online gamers…”
“We suspect the telephone exchange may have been used in Jigar Topiwala’s online cricket betting racket. Once an international call is made from Dubai… the illegal telephone exchange, with the help of SIM cards and electronic gadgets, gets it converted to a local call. The person who receives the call locally fails to realise that it is an international call. If the person calls on the same number, it will not connect.”
He added that the two arrested men were on Tuesday produced before a court in Surat and sent to three-day police custody. “We are also trying to ascertain the calls were made to whom and for what purpose,” said Roziya.
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