Assam police CID busts illegal call centre, arrests 37 persons
Guwahati, May 21 (IBNS): The Assam Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) busted an illegal call centre in Guwahati and arrested 37 persons including nine women on the charge of cheating people in the name of the unauthorised call centre.
According to the reports, based on intelligence input, the CID teams conducted search operation in the illegal call centre named Avenir Pvt. Ltd last night and seized huge quantity of computer sets, laptop, mobile phones and other documents from the call centre operating at Zoo-Narengi road area in the capital of Assam.
The CID team arrested 37 persons including nine women for allegedly involved in making fraud calls to customers to cheat them.
Assam police CID ADGP Dr LR Bishnoi said that the CID teams also arrested the owner and manager of the call centre.
The prime accused identified as Rajesh Khan alias Rajesh Mukherjee alias Rajesh Bhai hails from Gujarat.
The CID sleuths recovered 22 monitors, 40 CPUs, two pen drives, one laptop and 32 mobile phones and other objectionable items.
“The CID had received information that an illegal call centre was running at Zoo-Narengi road in Guwahati. When we confirmed after a proper investigation that, such type of illegal activity was running there, we had formed four CID teams and raided different locations last night. The CID teams had arrested 37 employees of the call centre and recovered 20 monitors, 40 CPUs, 32 mobile phones, one laptop and some documents from there. We had also arrested the owner and the manager of the call centre today. The call centre was running here for the last three months,” Dr Bishnoi said.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
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