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Nine held for duping cellular company

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI DEC. 11. In order to keep in touch with their relatives down South and the Gulf countries at a cheaper rate, nine persons including a Delhi police constable, allegedly duped a cellular service provider to the tune of lakhs. This came to light when the accused were arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi police on December 7.

According to the police, a complaint was received from Bharti Cellular Limited that some persons had paid Rs. 7,500 for availing STD, ISD and conferencing facilities and then did not pay the bills amounting to Rs. 40 lakh. The addresses which they had furnished for getting the mobile phone connection were forged.

Following information, the accused were arrested from their hideouts at Defence Colony, Khanpur and Munirka. They have been identified as Gajraj Yadav and Hari Lal, both residents of Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh; Sujith, Subhash Thomas, Abdul Basheer and Dixen Elias and Gopala Krishnan, the constable, all residents of Kerala; Sajid and Mohammad Ashraf, both residents of Karnataka.

The accused revealed that they obtained the phone connections with the help of forged documents. They paid Rs. 7,500 and availed of the scheme of STD, ISD and conferencing. They told the police that a large number of people from Kerala were in the Gulf countries, particularly in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The cost of a call from Riyadh to India was Rs. 1,200 per minute.

Three PCO owners in Riyadh were contacted by the accused who decided to join the racket. Any person making call from Riyadh would contact the accused who in turn would connect them to their family members in Kerala with the help of conferencing facility.

The PCO owner used to charge Rs. 400 from their client. They also remitted money in the account of the accused to the tune of Rs. 25 lakh. The accused used to get bills running in lakhs and then change their hideout.

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