Fake call centre busted, kingpin held in Assam

CID sleuths have busted a fake call centre allegedly involved in defrauding American citizens.

Additional director-general of police (CID) L.R. Bishnoi said a CID team busted the call centre run by a bogus company called Avenir Pvt Ltd and located on the second floor of a house on Zoo-Narengi Road here late on Monday night.

The main accused, Rajesh Khan alias Rajesh Mukherjee, and his recruiting officer Naomi Changsan were arrested. Rajesh, who hails from Gujarat, was arrested from near Nehru Park here on Tuesday afternoon. Naomi was arrested from the call centre on Monday night.

The police also picked up 36 employees of the call centre including nine women, hailing from states like Meghalaya, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Nagaland and Delhi.