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Two persons were nabbed by the Special Crime Team of the Central Crime Station on with the Nampally constabulary for selling illegally activated mobile SIM cards connected Saturday, January 17.
The accused were identified arsenic 22-year-old Nanevath Dinesh Kumar Naik, who runs a SIM organisation concern nether the sanction Lavanya Enterprises astatine Kadapa, and 24-year-old Parnapally Sai Pradeep, a SIM promoter, some residents of Kadapa territory successful Andhra Pradesh.
Police said the duo was recovered successful possession of 184 illegally activated SIM cards, including 150 Airtel and 34 Jio connections, and 4 mobile phones.
During the investigation, it was recovered that they were allegedly activating caller Airtel SIM cards utilizing the KYC details and fingerprints of customers who had visited their outlet to acquisition SIM cards, without the cognition of the customers.
The illegally activated SIM cards were past brought to Hyderabad and were being sold to prospective buyers astatine higher prices.
The accused were handed implicit to the Nampally constabulary for further investigation. Police advised citizens to guarantee that SIM purchases and KYC updates are done lone astatine authorised web stores and centres.
