A Delhi Police constable who has been arrested for allegedly attempting to obtain Call Details Record (CDR) of Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley"™s mobile phone had purportedly made an oral agreement with a private detective to procure call records of his clients through the official channel for a consideration of Rs.1,500 per head. The private detective has also been arrested.
Constable Arvind Dabas"™s associate has been identified as Neeraj Nayyar, who runs a private detective agency and had been operating in collaboration with the tainted policeman for the past eight months.
"They had entered into an arrangement under which the constable had to provide CDRs of his clients. We have reasons to believe that the constable, who had been charging Rs.1,500 per mobile phone number, had so far supplied details on over a dozen clients of Neeraj," said a police officer.
Constable Dabas, who was posted at the Parliament Street police station, had been absent for the past 18 months."A departmental enquiry was initiated against him and his salary blocked," said a police officer. The Special Cell has found out that he had allegedly been helping Nayyar obtain call records of his clients, including those seeking pre-marital probes, abusing official channels of communication with mobile phone service providers.
The constable landed in trouble when on January 8, through the official email address of an Assistant Commissioner of Police, he allegedly sent a request to a service provider seeking the call details of Mr. Jaitley. However, the cheating was detected by the company"™s nodal officer who on suspicion cross-checked with senior police officers and discovered that it was an unauthorised request.
Dabas purportedly told the interrogators that he wanted Mr. Jaitley"™s call records to verify the claims of one of his contacts, a Dehra Dun-based Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, who had allegedly assured that he would use his links with the senior BJP leader to help him set up a real estate business in Uttarakhand.
Based on the findings, the police registered a case under Section 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 66A of the Information Technology Act and arrested Dabas.
At his instance, they subsequently arrested Nayyar, who is presently in police custody and during questioning has purportedly revealed about his"business" relations with the constable.
The police are presently tracking digital footprints to ascertain how many times the constable illegally accessed the email accounts of persons authorised to send requests for CDRs to service providers and in how many cases he managed to get the call records.
The police have so far not come across evidence to suggest the involvement of any other policeman in the case. However, all possibilities are being investigated.