Police on Tuesday arrested an Indian national on the charge of illegally operating a call bypass center in Birgunj Metropolitan City-2.

The detainee has been identified as Irphan Suphiyan Khan (38) of Telakuwa, Badshahgram, Uttar Pradesh.

Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of the Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police and the District Police Office, Parsa raided a house in Birgunj and apprehended him.

Police have also confiscated a 32-port GOIP gateway device, two routers, an inverter, 40 NTC SIM cards and 58 Ncell SIM cards among others from the house.

Police said that they are investigating the case.