The arrested duo has been identified as Mantresh Thakur, 29, and Gopal Tripathi, 37.
The Mumbai crime branch sleuths on Thursday arrested two senior officials from an internet and telecom service provider company for their alleged involvement in the racket wherein internet data cards (IDC) were issued through bogus customer documents.
The arrested duo has been identified as Mantresh Thakur, 29, and Gopal Tripathi, 37. While Thakur works as an area sales manager, Tripathi works as senior sales manager in the said telecom company and he reports to the CEO of the company.
According to joint commissioner of police, crime, Himanshu Roy, the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) of crime branch, since past one month was working on information that IDCs were issued through bogus and forged documents.
Explaining about the modus-operandi of the racket Roy said, “Customer Application Form filled by a customer is collected by a dealer. This form has name, photograph, identification proof details and signature of the customer. Based on this, many more documents are issued. While the genuine customer is only one, there are other similar documents issued on either his name or his photograph.”
“We have learnt that 439 such IDCs have been issued on forged and bogus documents since past seven months. On one genuine document, as many as 60 IDCs were issued by the racket. The arrested persons said that they would get performance based incentives and this motivated them to do this. It is sad that their duty was to check that no customer gets cards through bogus documents and they themselves were found involved in such racket,” said additional commissioner, Deven Bharti.
He added the police have seized forged documents and are in the process of reaching out to those customers whom are using these fraudulently procured IDCs. “They were giving these IDCs to customers who wanted to keep their identities secret or were in need of IDCs and didn’t have proper documents, through sub-agents,” Bharti said.
“They have been charged with several sections of Indian Penal Code including cheating, forgery and criminal breach of trust. If it is found that the cards given by them were used for any anti-social activities by anyone, then we will book them under relevant sections later. The duo is in the police custody till February 26,” said police inspector Shashank Sandbhor.
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