Overview

• Agents searched five locations in Cachar, Assam, before detaining TSM Debashish Doley along with middlemen Mahim Uddin Barbhuiya and Ashim Purkayastha.
• Investigators allege the Airtel territory sales manager worked with middlemen, distributors and PoS agents to issue SIM cards without the knowledge of the named customers and to sell them in bulk.
• Seized material includes mobile phones, electronic devices and copies of KYC documents, which officials say will undergo forensic examination.
• The probe details a “ghost SIM” method where a duplicate number created during e-KYC is diverted to criminals while the legitimate customer receives the original card.
• CBI says the illicit SIMs enabled digital-arrest cons, impersonation, fake ads, investment and UPI frauds, and mule bank accounts, and the accused were presented to a magistrate with transit remand obtained for production before the FIR court.