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http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=197790

Tuesday , August 22, 2006

ATS grills 2 men held for forging papers to get mobile SIM cards
One traced from cellphone records, which showed calls from Pak, Nepal
Express News Service
Mumbai, August 21: Two persons arrested by the Pydhonie police last week for allegedly procuring mobile SIM cards using forged documents are being questioned by the state Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) for any links with July 11’s serial blasts.

Junaid Jabbar Dalal (38) and Abdul Ayub Sama (20) were arrested by the police on August 14 and have since been remanded to police custody till August 28 for cheating and forging documents.

The duo came under the police scanner after it was found that a particular cellphone number, among more than a 100 numbers under electronic surveillance after the blasts, had been receiving calls from Pakistan, Nepal and China.

Investigations revealed that the number was registered in the name of Abdul Mohammed Sati (24), a businessman and resident of Dongri. During interrogation, Sati allegedly said he had stopped using the number after 2004.

But when the police scanned the records of the cellphone number, they found that frequent calls were being made to and received from another number. This number was found to be registered in the name of Mohammed Shaikh (40), also a businessman. When interrogated, Shaikh told the police that the number—initially with Sati—was being used by Junaid, owner of Z Y Enterprises in Versova.

Investigators found that Junaid, originally a resident of Dhoraji village in Rajkot district of Gujarat, owned the SIM card and had bought it from Abdul Sama—a cellphone and mobile SIM card dealer in Dongri.

When the police found out Junaid was visiting Gujarat, they contacted the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad, which picked him up and handed him over to the Pydhonie police.

In their remand plea, the police told the court that Junaid had not even submitted the mandatory documents required to get a new SIM card. His arrest led the police to Sama, who allegedly told the police that he had used Sati’s driving licence and forged his signature to get a new SIM in his name, which he later sold to Dalal.