Special Court convicts 3 for setting up illegal phone exchange

Hyderabad, Jan 9 (UNI) The Special Court for CBI cases today convicted three people in a case related to setting up an illegal telephone exchange for unauthorised routing international calls from other countries to India.

According to a press release here, the Judge sentenced the accused to five years rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 each on Radha Krishna Murthy, P Damodar Tilak and Sharat Jain.

According to the prosecution, they had conspired with each other and set up the illegal telephone exchange by-passing the legal telephone networks, thereby causing a loss of Rs 1.65 crore to the Centre.

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