noida police on tuesday claimed to have busted a gang that was running an illegal telephone exchange in noida to convert international calls into local ones using technology with the arrest of two peoplesweety sharma a resident of bisrakh area of greater noida west and pankaj safi a resident of noidas sector 63 were arrested for causing a loss of rs 30 crore to the state exchequer officials said several computers routers and internet connection boxes worth around rs 30 lakh have been seized from the possession of the duoon a complaint from an official of reliance jio infocomm ltd a joint team of noida police and the department of telecom dot under the union ministry of communications raided a building in noidas sector 63 from where the illegal exchange was being run and made the arrests on september 5during interrogation the accused revealed that they had opened the exchange in may this year and through the router they would make foreign calls drop on their server and then forward the same as domestic calls to the concerned connection through the jio network due to this the union government incurred a revenue loss of rs 30 crore abdul qadir acp1 central noida saidthe accused have been booked under sections 420 cheating and 120b criminal conspiracy of ipc and under the indian telegraph act at the sector 63 police stationsources in the police said that such calls were untraceable such calls can cause a threat to national security as well the dot is also investigating the role of the people who in infocomm companies give gateways or connections to these people for running such illegal exchanges the sources saida senior official at the union ministry of communications said the foreign calls were landed at the setup by these accused through the internet and the calls were converted into local calls and sent forward as they were bypassing the international long distance ild gateway they were causing revenue loss to the government as every minute is a source of revenue generation for us said ankit shukla adg security and digital intelligence at the ministry