UP cop arrested for leaking call detail records

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested a UP Police constable for allegedly providing call detail records of individuals to a gang for money.

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested a UP Police constable for allegedly providing call detail records of individuals to a gang for money.

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The police had earlier busted a racket of obtaining phone call detail records (CDRs) of individuals and arrested four persons.

The arrested constable, Narendra Choudhary, was detained in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, on Sunday and then brought to Delhi for questioning. His name cropped up during questioning of the four arrested suspects in the case.

Narendra was posted in the surveillance cell at the Inspector General of Police office in Kanpur.

Ravindra Yadav, joint commissioner of police (crime), said Narendra’s interrogation revealed he had been illegally using the official email ID of the SSP, Kanpur, to send requests to telecom operators and nodal agencies concerned for obtaining CDRs of various individuals.

“Narendra had been receiving requests for CDRs from the prime accused, Jaiveer Singh Rathore, who runs a detective agency and a private news channel from his office in south Delhi’s Mahipalpur,” said Yadav.

The police said Rathore first collected details of targets whose call records he wanted to view and then sent them to Narendra. The constable obtained CDRs of the said targets and saved them as drafts on his email account that had been opened especially for the purpose.

“The drafts were never sent. Narender used to just share password of the email account with Rathore who in turn downloaded the CDRs. Once the work was done, Narendra used to delete the account. He opened a new email account every time he had to share new set of call detail records,” said an investigator.

Police said they were going through the bank account details of Narendra to establish the monetary transaction between him and Rathore. It has been found Narendra allegedly earned over Rs 20 lakh by supplying call detail records of individuals to various detective agencies.