Police wanted info on people with multiple connections to check misuse of cards; deadline ends today.
The police, worried over the misuse of SIM cards, had instructed mobile service providers and retailers to give them details of subscribers with multiple mobile connections. They had set August 31 as the deadline for the information to be made available.
But with less than 24 hours for the deadline to expire, the police are yet to get the details.
“The service providers and retailers were told to give us details of subscribers in whose name multiple SIM cards have been issued,” joint commissioner of police (crime) Alok Kumar said.
“But, till date, we have not received the details we had sought. We had set August 31 as the deadline for the details to be furnished,” he said.
The police said that multiple SIM cards being issued to individual mobile phone subscribers had become a security concern. Their initiative came in the wake of several complaints from people who claimed that multiple SIM cards had been issued in their names without their knowledge.
“In some cases, we found that these additional SIM cards had fallen into the hands of anti-social elements and even those involved in the July 25, 2008, serial Bangalore blasts,” the police officer said.
The police found that most criminals obtained SIM cards by providing fake addresses or used those registered in the names of genuine customers to commit offences. Last month, the central crime branch (CCB) police had seized nearly 682 illegal SIM cards of various service providers and other documents from three people they had arrested.
The city police intensified its drive against illegal SIM cards and arrested 30 people, mostly retailers, in the last one month. The retailers issued SIM cards to criminals in the name of customers who had furnished proper documents for their connections, the police said.
The police also wrote a letter to the telecom enforcement, resource and monitoring (TERM) cell of the department of telecommunications to take necessary action against the service providers and retailers.
“We will take stringent action against those service providers and retailers who indulge in this illegal activity,” the joint commissioner of police said. “As of now, we have not received a single complaint or feedback from the service providers,” he said.
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