New avatar of Bunty aur Babli

Extortion of money a la Bunty aur Babli - the Abhishek Bachchan and Rani Mukherji-starrer that shows a small-town pair turn famous as con artists - may soon become passe. Or that’s what Thane Police feel. A senior police official investigating the Mira Road call centre scam, notes that all you need is a computer with internet connection to dupe anyone sitting anywhere in the world. A team of 200 police personnel, which during a raid seized 851 hard disks from seven call centres running illegally without any registration, realised that the staffers had deceived American citizens into handing over hundreds of dollars by posing as the USA’s Internal Revenue Service officials. However, what has made the officials worried is the lack of regulatory framework to monitor call centres. So the cop wanted to know who will regulate the new, grander avatars of Bunty aur Babli.