This is the second time that Kavi has been apprehended on charges related to his profession
A sixth private detective Kirtesh Kavi, was held from Goregaon on Wednesday in a case related to detectives accessing and selling Call Data Records (CDRs) of various entities such as insurances companies and corporates.
This is the second time that Kavi has been apprehended on charges related to his profession. He was let off the first time due to an apparent lack of regulation for private detectives.
According to Thane police, which took the action against Kavi, he owns a firm called Cosmos Securities and Detective Agency based in Goregaon. Kavi had allegedly provided CDRs to Prashant Palekar and Jigar Makwana from Globe Detective Agency from Vashi.
"Kavi was earlier arrested by Bandra police in February 2017 for providing CDRs to other detective agencies," said senior police inspector Nitin Thakare of the Thane Crime Branch's Unit I. Said to be a police informer earlier, Kavi used his good offices with cops to obrain CDRs of other individuals and supply it to his clients.
According to officers from the Crime Branch, Kavi was able to escape the previous time and has been caught for the same offence again because of the lack of a law in the country that can regulate private detective agencies. "There was a bill in parliament in 2007 to regulate private detective agencies but that was never passed. Hence, these agencies run without any appropriate licenes," said DCP Abhishek Trimukhe, Zone I, Thane police.
On February 13, Thane crime branch arrested one more private detective Kirtesh Kavi from Goregaon in CDR case. Thane court has remanded Kavi to police custody till February 18. This is the second time that Kavi have been caught in a similar case but lack of any regulation to keep private detectives under check that he managed to get away the first time.
Last week on February 7, the Thane crime branch had arrested Ajinkya Nagargoje and one Jaspreet from Pune in a case related to CDRs. While Nagargoje provideed 131 CDRs to Makwana, Jaspreeet had provided 38 SDRs (Subscriber Detail Registry) to the sleuths. Before that, cops had arrested a woman detective, Rajani Pandit, for buying CDRs from Makwana and team.
THE CASE
- On January 24, Thane police held four detectives of Globe Detective agency — Makesh Pandiyan, Prashant Palekar, Samaresh Jha, and Jigar Makwana for selling CDRs to their clients
- These clients include corporates, insurance surveyors, married couples, etc. The cops seized laptops, computers and mobile phones and found a cache of 177 CDRs
- Buying and selling of CDRs (call data records) is a crime and it is only cops of a certain rank, who can ask for them
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