Call centre owner held in Delhi for illegally routing internet calls on Indian numbers

A call centre was busted here for allegedly routing international internet calls to Indian phone numbers by illegally bypassing the legal gateway for such connections besides causing revenue loss to the government, police said on Monday.

Sumit Kumar Bisdah, 27, who was running the call centre, was arrested from Laxmi Nagar in Delhi after an FIR was lodged in Noida on a complaint by officials of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Government of India, they said.

Besides the revenue loss, the call centre had posed a threat to national security by the act, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Noida, Ranvijay Singh said, after a joint raid by the local Sector 20 police and a DoT team.