Four held in Gurugram for running illegal GSM gateways in cyber fraud

Police bust transnational racket linked to Philippines, Cambodia; 15 gateway boxes, 500+ SIMs seized from multiple rented sites.

Published on: Apr 2, 2026, 08:10:50 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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A transnational cyber fraud racket was busted with the arrest of four more suspects during raids across two states for operating remotely controlled illegal GSM call gateways from multiple locations in Gurugram, police said on Wednesday. The setup allegedly enabled Philippines- and Cambodia-based cybercrime gangs to dupe victims through “digital arrest” fraud.

Four held in Gurugram for running illegal GSM gateways in cyber fraud

Police said the arrested accused were two men from Gujarat and two from Maharashtra. All four, aged between 20 and 25, were arrested on March 26.

Police said the operation came to light on March 17 after two rented accommodations in DLF Phase-III U-Block were found running illegal gateways. From these sites, officials recovered 504 fraudulently issued SIM cards, five call gateway boxes, eight internet routers, 18 batteries and three inverters.

The first arrest in the case took place in Kasganj, Uttar Pradesh on March 26 when searches across seven apartments in U-Block and Chakkarpur led to the seizure of 10 call gateway boxes, seven motion-sensor WiFi cameras, seven routers, four inverters, 24 batteries, 29 remote WiFi switches, 18 ethernet cables, and a railway ticket.

DCP (east) Gaurav Rajpurohit said, “Overall, we have recovered 15 call gateway boxes from nine different locations in U-Block and Chakkarpur from March 17.” He added the accused operated gateways remotely using cameras and router switches and were “in continuous touch with foreign nationals”. A special investigation team led by ACP (cybercrime) Priyanshu Dewan was formed. Additional FIRs were registered under BNS sections 318 (cheating) and 319 (cheating by personation).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More

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