Two arrested for running fake call centre in Haryana’s Gurugram

Two persons were arrested for allegedly running an illegal call centre from the basement of a house in Sector 44 in Gurugram and duping United States (US) nationals of money.

Acting on a tip-off, the police searched the call centre on Wednesday night and found that employees were engaged in calling US nationals despite having no licence or permission to run such a facility. The police said a case under Section 75 of IT Act, 2000, Section 66D of IT Act, 2008, and sections 120B and 420 of the Indian Penal Code was registered at the Cyber Crime police station on Thursday.

The two suspects have been identified as Nikhil Kumar and Jitender Sharma, who had taken the basement on rent in August 2021, and started running the fake call centre, said police.