Fake telephone exchange case: Three still evade arrest in Patna

PATNA: Teams of Patna police will soon be sent to other states to arrest three people charged with running an illegal telephone exchange from a rented room of a private building at Salimpur Ahra under the Gandhi Maidan police station area in Patna. Two people were earlier arrested by police in connection with the case.
Patna SSP Upendra Kumar Sharma said three of the main accused are from Dehradun, Haryana and Noida. “Police teams will be sent to these places and other states for arresting the accused,” he said. The illegal telephone exchange was unearthed on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday.
The SSP said intelligence agencies are also assisting the police in cracking the case. “This is the second time that such an exchange has been busted in Gandhi Maidan area. Earlier, one such exchange was unearthed in 2017,” the SSP added.
Sharma that main motive of the exchange was to lower the call rates by using illegal process. “International voice calls are changed in local call. However, such exchanges could be misused and those running it won’t be able to know it,” he said.
Meanwhile, sources said apart from intelligence agencies, the anti-terrorism squad (ATS) of state police would also join the investigation.
City SP (central) D Amarkesh said several cellphones had been sent to forensic science laboratory for analysis to get further details in the case.
“These cellphones were seized from the room inside which the exchange was running. A computer software was being used to convert voice calls originating on internet into local cellular network calls,” he said.