Karnataka Lokayukta corruption case: SIT adopts new tech to track calls

Bengaluru: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the extortion racket within the Lokayukta is building up a watertight case by using geo-mapping and geo-tagging of the mobile phone numbers and landline numbers that were used by the accused to run the racket of extortion. The findings will be used as material evidences after they are corroborated with the statements of the accused.

“The geo-mapping and geo-tagging are done to ascertain and pinpoint locations of the callers and the recipients and after assimilating that the calls have been made, the SIT will corroborate the whole sequence of events sitting with the accused,” Soumendu Mukherjee, DIG CID told Deccan Chronicle. “We need to know who spoke to whom and from where. After that it is the secondary evidence that we have to collect,” he added.

In all the three cases registered, mobile phones have been used extensively and the SIT is preparing the analytics on the call detail records (CDR) of all the accused, said Kamal Pant, chief of SIT.

The statements of the respective accused will be then recorded based on the exchange of calls and will be corroborated with the accused, witnesses, and others in multi-pronged angles and the analytics will be used as material evidences, along with the RTI applications that were ‘misused’ for the purpose of extorting money from government officials – all for building a watertight case against the in-house Lokayukta extortion racket.