Guwahati, Aug. 29 -- The CBI has arrested a Territory Sales Manager (TSM) of Airtel from Silchar, Assam for unauthorised sale of SIM cards used to commit various cyber crimes including digital arrest scams. The CBI raided five locations in Cachar, Assam on Wednesday and arrested three persons including TSM Debashish Doley and middlemen Mahim Uddin Barbhuiya and Ashim Purkayastha, said offcials on Thursday.
In a major crackdown on digital arrest scams in May this year, the CBI had booked 39 Point-of-Sales (PoS) operators who sold 1,100 "ghost SIM cards" to cyber criminals operating from Southeast Asian countries targeting Indian citizens. During investigation, the CBI found that Doley colluded with the middlemen Barbhuiya and Purkayastha to...