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(b), (f), (g), (i) r/w 66 of Information Technology Act, 2000. This petitioner is also the 4 th accused in Crime No.542 of 2021(B.A.No.7962 of 2021) , Crime No.539 of 2021 ( B.A.No.7356 of 2021) and in Crime No.543 of 2021 (B.A.No.7961 of 2021) and the 5th accused in Crime No.540 of 2021( B.A.No.7949 of 2021) and in Crime No.541 of 2021 (B.A 7944 of 2021).

3. The back ground for registration of the FIR is that the S I of police, Nallalam police station had received a discreet information on 1.7.2021 at about 10.30 p.m that the accused by using multiple broad band connections intentionally converted international phone calls and other phone calls, by terminating those calls and bypassed them to local calls, with the help of illegal call routing Gateway devices, by inserting pre activated SIM cards, without the consent or knowledge of the SIM owner, with criminal intention indulged in illegal and fraudulent activities to acquire unlawful gain and cheated various telecom service providers in India. Thus they accessed, tampered, altered and diminished the value of telecommunication network of the country and conducted parallel telephone exchanges at different locations at Kozhikode and caused huge monitory loss to the Government and the service providers . All the cases were registered on similar set of facts.

7. Essentially, it is to be noted that the allegations levelled against this petitioner are grave and serious in nature, as the case is that this petitioner along with the other accused are illegally running parallel telephone exchanges at six different locations. The articles seized from the building taken by this petitioner on rent as well as from the parcels received by his business concern even during investigation of the crimes reveal the gravity and seriousness of the accusations levelled against him. Parcels with SIM cards of different service providers and other articles came from different states through various courier services addressed in the name of the Firm, Binafa Enterprises owned by the petitioner and parcels reached even through Airports. The prosecution has also a case that the premises involved in Crime Nos. 539, 542 and 543 of 2021 of Kasaba Police Station were illegal setups were installed were taken on rent by using the forged Aadhar card by this petitioner. The investigation started with the arrest of one Juraiz. Later on his confession statement the involvement of this petitioner was revealed. He did not possess licence to run the business of construction of luxury vessels. On investigation it is revealed that the rental arrangement of the room in Crime No.320 of 2021 between this petitioner and the building owner was obtained by misleading him with a forged Aadhar card and he was not aware of the illegal setups, is the case of the prosecution. The materials so far collected by the investigating agency reveal that the rooms taken on rent by this petitioner were used for illegal business. It is also revealed that the investigating agency had conducted a search of the absconding accused after obtaining search warrants from Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-III, Kozhikode and so many documents including passbooks, cheque books of various banks, passport etc were seized. So the investigating agency has to collect details of the money transactions of the petitioner, his source of income, his foreign relation and account details etc in detail. In the report submitted by the investigating agency it is specifically stated that the people behind the operations are channeling criminal activities through an exclusive manner using expensive equipments as installation of an illegal telephone exchange is not at all a profitable business, because of the advancement of social media like face book, whatsapp, lnstagram etc. The investigating agency suspects something more serious. It has to delve deep into all the intricacies. Prima facie from the materials so far collected by the investigating agency, it appears that this petitioner was engaged in nefarious activities which could be investigated only with technical support and therefore, definitely custodial interrogation is inevitable in the case. The investigating agency have to gather more materials and to recover more items after his interrogation. His laptop, mobile phone etc have also to be seized and verified. As he was having close acquaintance with many people outside the country, whether he received training from outside sophisticated agencies have also to be probed into. The submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner that on the basis of the confessional statement of the 1st accused alone, this petitioner cannot be roped in case of this nature. But the investigating agency though started to investigate against the petitioner on the confessional statement of the 1 st accused, incriminating circumstances are detected and materials indicating the alleged offence are also recovered.