Police bust parallel telephone exchange racket

Illegal operation carried out using broadband connection and call routing device

The city police on Friday arrested a Kolathara native, who was allegedly part of a gang that operated parallel telephone exchanges in various parts of Kozhikode district, using a dedicated broadband internet connection and call routing device. The suspect, P. Jurise, 26, son of Saithalavi, was nabbed on a tip-off received by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Swapnil Madhukar Mahajan. According to the police, the youth, along with his partners in the crime, was engaged in converting international telephone calls into local calls using the illegal telephone network. The paid parallel service had caused a huge revenue loss to the government and the licensed service providers in the sector, they said.