Ghaziabad: Twenty people, 17 of them women, were arrested for allegedly operating a fake call centre out of Sahibabad on Wednesday.According to the police, the main accused, Abhishek Jain, cheated hundreds of people last year across the country.DCP (Trans-Hindon and City) Dhawal Jaiswal, told TOI that during interrogation, Abhishek revealed that he, along with his relatives — his wife Hina; uncles Sunil Jain, Piyush Jain among others — and an associate, Salim was running a fake call centre in a firm registered as Jainson International.“The accused provided the women employed in the firm with keypad mobile phones and SIMs to call unemployed youth on the pretext of giving them jobs and collected money from them in the name of registration, processing, interview fee,” the DCP said. Salim supplied the gang with mobile phones and SIMs registered on fake IDs.Police recovered 12 laptops, 23 smartphones, 14 keypad phones, 47 SIMs, 16 debit cards, two credit cards and one Audi car, along with other documents.The suspects were arrested under Sections 318(4) (punishment for cheating), 336(3) (forgery for the purpose of cheating), 338 (forgery of valuable security, will, etc.) and 340(2) (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record) of BNS and IT Act at Sahibabad police station. Sunil Jain and Salim are on the run.
