Another fake call centre busted in Gurugram; 3 arrested, 35 detained

Sanjay Yadav
Gurugram, February 20

Another fake call centre was busted in Gurugram on Saturday by CM flying squad. Three, including the owner of the call centre, have been arrested whereas 35 workers were detained.

The arrested duped US nationals by offering them online loans. About two laptops, one hard disk, two pen drives, one colour printers, and five mobiles have been seized.

The flying squad-led by DSP Inderjeet Yadav conducted a raid in the morning after receiving a tip-off about a fake call centre running from the fifth floor of plot no 345 Udyog Vihar phase-5.

When they reached, they found more than 35 employees being busy on computers and laptops, and also busy making phone calls.

During investigation, the team found out that they did not have a valid OSP licences of Department of Telecommunications or any other agreement, or MoU related to their work.

They were running the fake call centre under the name of Ganeshan Infotech.

The arrested revealed that they had been operating the fake call centre for the last five months. The arrested call centre owner identified as the 21-year-old Sarjeet Kumar a native of Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, and his accomplices was the 32-year-old Kapil Dev Patel, a native of Ahmedabad, and 27-year-old Bhudev Lohar, a native of Dungarpur in Rajasthan.

While the main accused Sarjeet Kumar and Kapil Dev Patel are class 12th pass, Bhudev Lohar is M.com, and the trio came to Gurugram in search of jobs, and then started their own fake call centre.

“The accused first collected the data like names, mobile numbers, emails, and addresses, and then sent them voice mail. They trapped foreigners offering them loan and claiming that their loan has been sanctioned. They asked US nationals to pay them only through E-cheque, debit and credit card and charge 100 to 500 US dollar from one. We are questioning the accused”, said Inderjeet Yadav, DSP, CM flying squad.