CBI arrests a Deputy Director (training) of Ministry of Defence for bribe

New Delhi Aug 6: The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Deputy Director (Training) Department of Official Language, Ministry of Defence, Sena Bhawan, New Delhi for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs. four lakh from the complainant. The accused was produced today before the designated court here and was remanded to five days police custody.

The accused had threatened the complainant, a civil contractor that an Enquiry had been registered by CBI against him and his associate which would soon be converted into an FIR and the two would be arrested. The accused further assured them that he knows the concerned officials in CBI who have been conducting the said Inquiry and would get it closed if a bribe of Rs.16 lakh is paid to CBI officials. He claimed that he had settled for the amount of Rs.16 lakh after having talked to the concerned CBI officials.

The complainant gave a complaint to CBI and a trap was laid. The accused was caught red-handed having accepted the bribe money of Rs.four lakh as part of the total demand of Rs.16 lakh. Further investigation is continuing. -Keralamonitor.com

DOT busts illegal International call racket in Delhi

Aug 6: A team of officials from the Department of Telecommunications (DOT), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited and the Special Cell of Delhi Police have unearthed a clandestine/illegal telephone exchange in Delhi that was being used for routing incoming international calls through internet and further distributing these on to the local telephone network in Delhi. The prepaid cards available abroad, meant for making calls to India, were the source of incoming international calls. The miscreants were bypassing the authorised international long distant operators and were switching these calls using this illegal telephone exchange. This illegal set up was not only causing huge revenue loss to the telecom operators but was also posing a security risk, as the calls handled by such type of illegal set up are beyond the scope of monitoring by the authorised security agencies.

The raid was carried out yesterday at a premises in Govind Puri, near Kalkaji Bus Depot, New Delhi. The illegal telephone exchange set up there was equipped with sophisticated Hi-tech equipments. Internet leased line was also found terminated on this illegal set up. The complete set up was misused for automatic switching of incoming international calls received via Internet leased link of 2 Mbps of M/s Reliance Infocom Ltd., and further these received calls were distributed to end-user in and around Delhi by using 24 Mobile Connections of Airtel and 24 Mobile Connections of IDEA Cellular. The Special Cell of Delhi police arrested two persons involved in the racket and they are being further interrogated for involvement of any other Indian and Foreign partners. -Keralamonitor.com