Illegal telecom set up unearthed at Chandernagore

The West Bengal CID along with a vigilance team of the department of telecom on Tuesday unearthed an illegal telecom set up at Chandernagore in Hooghly district and arrested a Bangladeshi and three others for their alleged involvement in it, a senior officer said.

Acting on a tip-off, the state CID in a joint operation with officials of the Telecom Enforcement Resource and Monitoring (TERM) raided a flat at Chandernagore and found the illegal telecom set up for the alleged telephone exchange, DIG CID (operations) Nishant Pervez said.

He said in the joint raid at a rented flat belonging to a person named Pintu Das at Mitra Nivas in Chandannagar and found that an illegal telephone exchange was under installation there.

One Bangladeshi, identified as Mohammed Sarwer Jahan had arrived in India a couple of months back with an intention of establishing an illegal telephone exchange here, he said.

He had employed three locals to help him set up the telephone exchange. They were