Jammu, Sep 4 - The startling discovery of guerrillas getting mobile phone SIM cards on fake documents has set off alarm bells for security and intelligence agencies in Jammu and Kashmir who say that private telecom service providers are 'overlooking security parameters to push their sales'.

Police have arrested at least eight people after it was found that many pre-paid phone connections were being used by militants to stay in touch with each other and also use cell phones to trigger off blasts.

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) J.P. Singh, who is heading the probe, said the private telecom operators are giving out additional SIM cards using names and documents of subscribers who were already using the service.

'All this is being done to push sales. Private cellular companies are forgetting something called corporate responsibility and are overlooking security parameters which can be very dangerous,' the police officer told IANS.

'And many such connections have easily landed in the hands of militants,' the police officer said. The subscribers were unaware that their names and documents were being misused.

Singh said there was 'no organised nexus between militants and mobile phone dealers'.

'No such evidence as of now is available to prove this (the nexus),' he said. Some 25,000 to 30,000 SIM cards have been cancelled following the disclosure.

Singh said the probe into the racket has been completed and charges against the eight accused will be filed soon.

Refusing to name the accused, he said those arrested included retailers of private phone companies.

The terror-ravaged state got its cellular phone service by the state-run BSNL in 2003.