"We traced Chandak to a relative's house in Delhi, where he had taken refuge along with his wife and mother, said DIG (operations), CID.
KOLKATA: Police arrested a call centre employee who was caught offering database for a hefty sum in a sting operation by British Channel 4 television in a city hotel here on Wednesday.
Sushant Chandak, the 29-year-old alleged middleman in a data theft scandal hitting call centres, was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), after he was traced to New Delhi and brought back here for interrogation.
A resident of Nagerbazar in north Kolkata, he is being produced in Barrackpore court here on Thursday.
"We traced Chandak to a relative's house in Delhi, where he had taken refuge along with his wife and mother. Officers asked him to come down to answer some queries," said Rajeev Kumar, deputy inspector-general of police (operations), CID.
"He came to our headquarters and we found a number of discrepancies in his statement in the course of interrogation. Chandak has been booked under Section 66 of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000, for possessing data which he was not authorised to have legally," Kumar said.
Sushant's alleged involvement in the scam was exposed after Britain's Channel 4 carried out a sting operation and interviewed him in the Taj Bengal hotel here. Chandak had offered to sell a database with credit card details of 20,000 people.
He was also privy to passport numbers, driving licence numbers and personal banking details. British police had first collected information about Chandak and contacted the Delhi headquarters of the call centre where he once worked.
Sushant said he was framed in the operation as he was offered support to set up a call centre of his own.
"I agree that I was wrong but at that time I was not in my senses. I felt I have to set up a call centre at any way. I was asked that I must say to a lady that I have database of thousands and I said it just like that without a thought," he said.
"I was offered help and so I sent my resume to her," Sushant said.
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