Another CDR case busted, 4 arrested including one S-I

So far, they have accessed 2,000 CDRs of people. However, none of them is a VIP or a prominent person, Ravindra Yadav, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) said.

According to the police, the matter came to light when one person made a complaint to police informing that he had received a message on his mobile number that reads: “Contact for obtaining CDR of any mobile number in India”. When the person contacted them and asked to take out the CDR of his son of last six months, he charged them Rs 8,000.

During probe it was learnt that the message was sent by Aniket Dhamale (25), who is a resident of Maharashtra who operates a detective agency — Chercheur Detective & Investigator in Pune. Further it was learnt that he has indulged in providing CDRs illegally.

Later, the name of another detective agent — Abhinav Kumar (35), cropped up who is a resident of Mumbai. The duo were aware about cyber hacking and owns Spymantra Detective and Investigation. Kumar further told police about Gajraj Singh (23), who is a hacker and cyber expert. He had also done a course on ethical hacking. They all came in contact with each other by taking contact details from Just Dial. Singh disclosed about the involvement of Mukesh Meena who is a Sub-Inspector in Cyber Cell unit in Rajasthan police.

Meena was misusing his official NIC mail to send the CDRs and was charging Rs 1,500 to Rs 1,700 from Gajraj who further doubled the charges while giving the CDRs to Abhinav. Later, Ankit used to charge Rs 8,00 to Rs 1,00,000 from their clients depending upon the quantity/period of CDR procured and profile of customer.

During joint interrogation, they told police that the clients who used to approach detective agencies for surveillance in matrimonial disputes, financial enquires of their rivals, love affairs, civil disputes, legal disputes, match-making were lured in the name of surveillance by these agencies into obtaining the CDR’s of their targets and once they agreed, they were charged exorbitantly.

“The accused persons had created a lot of email ids with various pseudo names and exchanged the mails with each other for transfer of CDRs. The network of this gang is spread all over India,” Yadav added.