The Chandra Layout police have registered a case against unidentified police personnel for allegedly helping an accused access call detail records (CDR) of four individuals.
Bharath S. Reddy, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Byatarayanapura Sub-division, who is probing cheating cases against Aishwarya Gowda, who allegedly cheated a jeweller claiming to be the sister of former MP D. K. Suresh, lodged a complaint with Chandra Layout police on the illegal access of CDRs.
The incident came to light when Aishwarya Gowda’s phone was seized in the cheating case and sent for a forensic examination. After obtaining court permission, the mobile phones were sent to the West Division CEN police station for data extraction. Upon examining the phones, investigators found the CDR of four individuals, including the complainant against her.
The CDRs are the private data of an individual and can only be accessed by law enforcement agencies when required for criminal investigations after following the due procedure and required permission from the authorities concerned. However, Ms. Gowda, who had no authorisation to obtain these records had misused them to threaten and extort money with the help of officials who are working in the department, sources said.
The police stated that a case was registered under Sections 120B (punishment for criminal conspiracy) and 409 (criminal breach of trust by a public servant) of the Indian Penal Code, along with Section 72 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Telecommunication Act, 2023.
Ms. Gowda has been summoned by the police for questioning on the source of CDRs found in her phone.
In August last year, the Central Crime Branch (CCB) arrested a policeman formerly working in the technical cell of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for allegedly being involved in a racket, where he illegally accessed CDRs of many individuals and sold them to a private detective.
Published - February 11, 2025 09:08 pm IST
