CID busts illegal call centre, 37 people arrested in Guwahati

Guwahati (Assam), May 22 (ANI): A team of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested 37 persons, including 9 women, for making fraud calls from an illegal call centre at Zoo Road in Assam's Guwahati. The call centre by the name of 'Avenir Pvt Ltd' was being run by Rajesh Khan, who has also been arrested. Additional Director General of Police (Admn), LR Bishnoi said, "CID has seized 22 monitors, 40 CPUs, 2 pen drives, 1 laptop and 32 mobile phones. Additionally, documents of the company and a diary containing the script they used were also recovered." A case has been registered under section 120B, 419, 420, 468, 471 and 384 of the Indian Penal Code, read with section 66 of the Information Technology Act.