Three Delhi Police officials among six more held in call detail records case

While police sources said the accused had been accessing CDRs for a year or more,the incident only came to light in February this year,when three attempts were made to access Jaitley’s CDR.

During their investigations into the Jaitley case,the police reportedly came across 52 CDRs which had been compromised. Of these,22 CDRs were found to have been accessed from the offices of the Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACP) in Khajoori Khas,Samaypur Badli and Shahdara.

“It was found that the accused police officials had sent requests for accessing the CDRs through the email accounts of their ACPs. They forged the signatures of their ACPs on the applications. We sent the applications to the CFSL. Once it was proved that the signatures were forged,we went ahead with the arrests,” said a Delhi Police source.

The last CDR that the accused accessed was in December 2012-January 2013.

According to sources,Anurag,the technical expert,was given specific numbers whose CDRs were sought. The numbers were passed on to Neeraj,who would get in touch with their detectives at the local level. These detectives,in turn,would approach their police ‘contacts’,who would then use their ACPs’ email accounts to seek the CDRs.

It is alleged that the ‘clients’ were charged Rs 2 lakh-5 lakh for the CDRs,depending on the duration for which the records were sought and the stature of the person whose records were sought.

Anurag and his associates are alleged to have spread their network across several police stations. They are reported to have paid constables to access CDRs using their ACPs’ email accounts. The constables,however,were not told the identity of the person whose CDR was being accessed.

The police are set to file a supplementary chargesheet in the case.