Kozhikode: Main accused in parallel telephone exchange case arrested. PP Shabir, a native of Chalapuram, Kozhikode, was arrested. Shabir, who was absconding for a year, was taken into custody by the district crime branch team in Wayanad.
The police had received information that Shabir used to disguise himself to visit a resort being built under a Benami name in Wayanad. He came with the name of Shamir. In this situation, the crime branch team was staying near the resort in disguise for days.
On Friday night, the accused reached the resort in Pozhuthana, Wayanad in a Haryana registration car and was arrested by the police. The case has been recommended to be investigated by the Enforcement Directorate.
July 1, 202 parallel telephone exchanges in seven places reached Devices including sim boxes and hundreds of sims from these sites Cards were also found. Kolathara native Juraisi living here during the examination was arrested first.
Shabir, Krishna Prasad, and Abdul Ghafoor have been absconding for six months in the case. Abdul Ghafoor had approached the High Court for the cancellation of the case.
Later, Malappuram Kadampuzha native Ibrahim Pullat was arrested in Bangalore in a similar case. And added as an accused in the case. The case has been brought under the provisions of the IT Act. Parallel exchanges were set up for anti-national activities, police said. The process to seize the property of the accused has also started.
