Daijiworld Media Network – Mumbai (AM)
Mumbai, Aug 11: Seven persons from Mumbai and surrounding areas were arrested by Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Maharashtra police after they busted an illegal telephone exchange.
Naseem Khan (29), Faisal Batliwala (28), Sameer Deoraj (30), Hussain Sayyad (39), Mandar Achrekar (36), Sibtain Merchant (33) and Imtiaz Sheikh (38) are the arrested.
According to PTI, the exchange is estimated to have caused a revenue loss of Rs 37 crore to the government and telecom operators.
Deputy commissioner of police Vinay Kumar Rathod said that acting on a tip-off, the ATS conducted raids in Masjid Bunder, Dongri, Worli and Govandi in Mumbai and Panvel and Kalyan areas on the outskirts of the city on Friday.
Equipment including servers, 513 SIM cards, three laptops, WiFi routers and 11 mobile phones, all worth over Rs 6.5 pac, were seized, he said.