Gujarat: 2 held for operating illegal telphone network

The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Wednesday arrested two persons and busted an illegal telephone network in Ahmedabad and Mumbai where international calls from foreign based operatives were being routed into local mobile networks using a “simbox/simbank”.

According to police, a raid was conducted at Saqib Apartment in Juhapura area of Ahmedabad by a team of Gujarat ATS where the accused Mohammad Shahid Saiyyad, a native of Junagadh, was allegedly held in possession of several sim cards, sim box/simbank, WiFi routers and network switches along with laptops and cellphones.

According to ATS officials, Saiyyad was flouting the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) guidelines by hiding the identity of the international ISD callers by converting it into local GSM calls.