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4. The FIR was registered on a complaint of the VSNL dated 29.05.2002 as per which accused Anand Wadhawan had taken three ISDN lines at Rohini records of which revealed that they were being Charanjeet Wadhawan & Ors. vs. State used for illegal international telephony. Large number of outgoing calls were being generated which were international calls being made to various subscribers in Delhi. Verification from these subscribers revealed that they had received international calls. It was also found about 41000 calls have been made from this network bypassing the legal gateway of VSNL, causing loss to the Government.

5. As per the charge-sheet, the premises at Rohini was raided by a joint team of VSNL and Special Cell of Delhi Police. It was found that three ISDN Lines of MTNL were terminated on ASCOM Modems, then to INNOVA Phone Multiplexer Packetiser and a Dialer Combined Unit which was connected to a personal computer for configuration of the set up. It was found to be functional with flow of telephone traffic of international calls being received in the form of internet packets from one ISDN line and thereafter switched though two remaining ISDN lines with the help of the said equipment. Charanjeet Lal Wadhawan, Anoop Wadhawan and Pankaj Wadhawan were present at the site and found to be running the said set up. They disclosed that they were running another set up at Madhu Vihar, Patpar Ganj, Delhi. Similar set up was found operating at Madhu Vihar, Patpar Ganj, Delhi.