Police bust illegal telephone exchange converting international calls
Bengaluru (PTI): The Bengaluru police have busted an illegally run telephone exchange here, and seized 28 SIM boxes and 1,193 SIM cards of various companies.
In a statement on Thursday, police said Vodafone Ltd lodged a complaint on November 28, alleging that SIM boxes were used on the fourth floor of Devaraj Building in the Electronic City Phase-2 to illegally convert international calls into local calls, thereby committing cyber crimes.
The complainant said that they were “jeopardising national security, and causing financial loss to the government and the telecom company”.
Subsequently, the Cybercrime Police of the Central Crime Branch (CCB) carried out searches and found 28 SIM boxes, 1,193 SIM cards of various companies, one laptop, three routers, one MI portable CC camera and other documents were seized. The total value of the seized items is Rs 40 lakh.
“The investigation revealed that the SIM cards seized were likely used for cybercrimes, while the SIM boxes were likely used for other cybercrimes. The investigation is underway to determine whether the SIM boxes were used for any other cybercrimes, and the search for the accused is ongoing,” police said.
They added that the accused belonged to Kerala and presently he is absconding in Dubai.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
