This is illegal and against the rules of the department of telecommunications. “This exchange was used to convert incoming international calls into normal voice calls using VoIP technology. As directed by Najib and Sohail, Saiyad started this VoIP-based exchange around a year ago, he said. Police recovered 139 sim cards installed in the sim boxes to generate VoIP calls, he said. Najib and his men make money by selling calling cards and sending commissions to Shahid, Amit and Sohail here, he said. As video calls through applications such as WhatsApp are banned in Gulf countries, Indians living there have to pay ISD rates to make international calls here. Najib was running the exchange remotely from Bahrain.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the exchange was set up by Najib P P, a native of Kerala, with help from his aides Amit, a resident of Pune and one Sohail, who is from Goa, the official said. A SIM box is a device that holds multiple sim cards and is used as part of a VoIP gateway installation. Based on a tip-off, an ATS team raided a flat at Sakib Apartments in Juhapura on Tuesday and apprehended Shahid Saiyad, who was running the illegal exchange using four sim boxes, a LAN switch, a laptop and a router, said Pinakin Parmar, superintendent of police, Gujarat ATS. Ahmedabad: The anti-terrorist squad (ATS) on Wednesday arrested one person with 139 sim cards and busted an illegal voice over internet protocol (VoIP) telephone exchange operating in the city.

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