One more held in net-to-phone scam

One more held in net-to-phone scam: "One more held in net-to-phone scam

Express News Service

Vadodara, March 29: ONE more person was arrested on Monday night in the net-to-phone call racket unearthed by J P Road police last month following a complaint registered by Department of Telecom�s Vigilance Division.
Earlier following a raid at Popular Software Office on Jetalpur Road and D2V office at Suvarnapuri Apartment in Alkapuri, police had unearthed two illegal telephone exchanges and arrested D2V director Dushwant Gosai.


Police were unable to trace one Sunil Patni who had rented Popular Software premises paying Rs 19,000 a month.
�Unable to trace any of those involved in the case, police were on the hunt for Vivek Wadse and Dhaval Patel who ran a cyber cafe called D4U below the D2V office. On Monday night, we arrested Dhaval from his Punit Nagar residence,� said J P Road investigation officer K B Jadeja.
�Dhaval has been arrested since most of the incoming calls on the Reliance instruments at D2V had been routed from the phone number of this cyber cafe, using the cafe�s internet connection. Dhaval is therefore an accomplice in the case,� added Jadeja.
Dhaval Patel (20), a second year M S University student who runs he cyber cafe with Vivek Wadse and Sunil Patni at Alnkar Business Centre in Alkapuri. He had left an unpaid bill of Rs 37,000 for a Reliance Fixed Wireless Telephone (FWT) that he had taken in the name of D2V cafe for routing incoming calls from abroad.
As per police information, Dhaval was hired as manager of D4U by Sunil Patni on a monthly salary of Rs 10,000 and had asked him to acquire several FWT phone sets from Reliance under the name of Dhaval Patel and Dhaval Shah. "