CDR racket busted; four, including policeman, arrested

With the arrest of four persons, including a police official from Jaipur, Delhi Police today claimed to have busted another call details record (CDR) racket operating across several cities.
Earlier this month, Delhi Police had busted a CDR racket with the arrest of five, including a UP Police constable and a man who was earlier involved in another similar racket which had allegedly tried to snoop on Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
The latest arrests were made over the past three days, following raids in cities, including Mumbai, Pune and Jaipur, on the basis of a complaint by a Delhi-resident whom the accused had approached and provided him with his son's CDR in exchange of Rs 8,000, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav said.

The accused have been identified as Aniket Prakash Dhamle (25), who claims to be an ethical hacker by profession and has his own detective agency in Pune; Abhinav Kumar (35), who heads a detective agency in Mumbai; Gajraj Singh (23), a cyber expert who was helping Jaipur Police for the past two years; and Mukesh Kumar Meena (38), a sub-inspector in the cyber cell of Jaipur Police whose promotion was due next month, police said.
Meena sent over 2,000 CDRs to Gajraj Singh through official links under the National Informatics Centre (NIC) domain for around Rs 1,500 each, which Singh used to resend to the detective agencies for anything around Rs 3,500. The detective agencies used to sell the same to their clients charging between Rs 5,000-12,000, police said.

The agencies associated with the racket catered to clients who sought CDRs for clues in matrimonial disputes, financial enquires of their rivals, love affairs, civil disputes, legal disputes and match-making.