Assam Police spokesperson Prasanta Bhuyan stated the arrests have been made all over an operation performed on Tuesday night time, in accordance with inputs from Intelligence Bureau and different resources.
“There have been inputs that round 10 other folks from those two districts have been serious about fraudulently purchasing SIM playing cards from other carrier suppliers and supplying the ones to a few Pakistani brokers, thus running towards the integrity and sovereignty of the country,” he stated.
5 of the accused have been arrested on Tuesday night time, he added.
The ones arrested have been known as Ashiqul Islam, Bodor Uddin, Mijanur Rahman and Wahiduz Zaman, all from Nagaon, and Baharul Islam from Morigaon.
Some of the pieces recovered from the arrested other folks and homes of the opposite 5 absconding accused are 18 cell phones, 136 SIM playing cards suspected to had been procured for fraudulent functions, one fingerprint scanner, one high-tech CPU and a few paperwork akin to delivery certificate, passbooks and images.
All the way through interrogation, it used to be printed that Ashiqul Islam used to be the use of a cell handset with two IMEI numbers from which a WhatsApp name used to be made, sharing defence data with a international embassy.
“That exact cell phone used to be present in his ownership. Different nabbed other folks have been additionally discovered technically concerned on this connection. An intensive interrogation along side the IB officers is underway,” Bhuyan added.