Two booked for operating illegal call centre in Navi Mumbai
Thane (PTI): The Navi Mumbai police have registered an offence against two persons for allegedly operating an illegal call centre and cheating the government of Rs 2.67 crore, an official said on Saturday.
The cyber police on Friday registered an offence under relevant provisions of the IPC, Indian Telegraph Act 1885 and Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act 1933 against Sushmita Rajkumar, the proprietor of Jas Technology Pvt Ltd and N Sudha Raghavendra Rao, proprietor of Savitarka Business Solutions Pvt Ltd, the official said.
According to the police, officials of the Directorate of Telecommunication (DoT) raided a premises in Rabale in July 2023 and found an illegal call centre operating there.
Rao was arrested earlier and is presently on bail, while the other accused is yet to be arrested, it said.
The cyber police have taken over the probe from the local Rabale MIDC police station, and hence, a fresh FIR was registered, the official said.
As per the FIR, the duo allegedly operated servers using international illegal VoIP call routing and transferred international calls illegally to Indian mobile phone numbers and cheated the government.
Such activities can pose a threat to the country and its internal security, it stated.
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Advocate found dead in car on Nainital court premises
Nainital (PTI): A 55-year-old advocate allegedly died by suicide after shooting himself inside his car at the Nainital district court parking lot here on Monday, police said.
According to the police, Puran Singh Bhakuni, a resident of Mallital, was found in the rear seat of his vehicle with a gunshot wound to his temple.
Police recovered a licensed pistol from his hand and a suicide note from the car’s dashboard. The note stated that Bhakuni was unwell and suffering from depression.
"We received information through lawyers around noon. The deceased was lying in the back seat with a pistol in his hand and blood near his ear," Circle Officer Anjana Negi said.
Forensic teams and ballistic experts reached the spot to collect evidence, as no witness reported hearing the gunshot.
Government counsel Sushil Sharma stated that Bhakuni left home at 9 am and was found dead at 9.30 am.
Sharma raised concerns over the circumstances, noting that the body was in the rear seat, and demanded a thorough probe to rule out foul play. Bhakuni, who worked as a notary, had married six months ago, he said.
Police took the body into custody and sent it for a postmortem to confirm the cause of death.
The forensic laboratory will examine the suicide note and the ballistics of the weapon, the police said, adding that the investigation is ongoing.
