Bengaluru police arrests 2 men for operating illegal telephone exchanges

The Bengaluru police have arrested two men for operating six illegal telephone exchanges in the city, where they would allegedly convert international calls for their customers into local calls and charge them a fraction of what they would need to pay for making them legally.

The two have been identified as Ibrahim Pullatti, 36, from Kerala’s Malappuram, and V Gautam, 27, who is from Tamil Nadu’s Tirupur. They were arrested on Monday based on the inputs from military intelligence.

A police officer said they have seized over 900 subscriber identification module (SIM) cards and a device, which could operate 32 of them at a time, from the two.