The Mumbai Police Crime Branch along with Military Intelligence Wing of Jammu and Kashmir Unit jointly raided a flat in Govandi on Saturday and have unearthed illegal VoIP Exchange. Cops have recovered 213 SIM cards and 5 SIM box which were used to route the international calls inside Indian terrain reflecting it as local calls. Intrestingly, a 38-year-old accused arrested by the cops was nabbed in 2017 for same offence in Bhiwandi.

In May 2020, Mumbai Police received a tip off from Military Intelligence (MI) J&K unit aboit a parallel and illegal telephone exchange. Several calls were made from Gulf countries to defence establishments in India. All the calls, which were Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) were converted into local calls through a SIMbox and routed to various sectors of India, especially Jammu and Kashmir.