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Bengaluru City Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh connected Wednesday urged the nationalist to workout caution portion purchasing second-hand mobile phones without due documentation, informing that specified transactions could pb to some fiscal and ineligible trouble. “Buyers of undocumented phones often suffer some their wealth and the instrumentality — the wealth goes to the thieves, portion the phones are seized by the constabulary erstwhile identified arsenic stolen,” helium said.
He was speaking elaborating connected a caller peculiar thrust implicit the past period and a half, successful which the metropolis constabulary person recovered 1,950 mobile phones worthy ₹3.02 crore which were robbed oregon mislaid successful Bengaluru.
Elaborating connected the peculiar drive, Mr. Singh said that officials from the Command Centre tracked down a full of 895 stolen and mislaid mobile phones done the Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) portal, which helps way devices utilizing their IMEI numbers. The cases were probed based connected the complaints done the Karnataka State Police App and reports filed astatine assorted constabulary stations crossed the metropolis from March 2024, helium said.
Once the IMEI of a mislaid oregon stolen telephone is uploaded to the CEIR portal, an alert is triggered whenever the instrumentality is switched connected with immoderate SIM card, allowing constabulary to place and interaction the idiosyncratic to retrieve the handset.
According to officials, astir of those recovered successful possession of stolen phones had unknowingly bought them from second-hand sellers. Of the full phones traced, 765 were recovered successful Bengaluru.
Mobile snatcher gangs busted
Meanwhile, the metropolis constabulary besides busted aggregate mobile snatcher gangs successful the metropolis arsenic portion of the peculiar drive.
Following a important fig of mobile snatching incidents being reported successful and astir K.R. Market area, the probe was transferred to the Central Crime Branch (CCB), who person precocious busted a pack of six youths and recovered a whopping 422 mobile phones from them.
The accused person been identified arsenic Arbaz, Chandrashekar, Afroz, Madan, Shanthakumar, and Mohammed Yasin. According to the police, the pack utilized to people pedestrians moving astir the marketplace country and snatch mobile phones portion riding bikes and besides stole phones from passengers wrong buses. They sold the stolen phones successful the grey marketplace for throwaway prices to money their vices, the constabulary said.
The remaining 633 mobile phones were recovered by assorted constabulary stations seized probing mobile theft cases registered with them implicit the past period and a half.
In 1 specified case, alert the Amrutahalli Police who went to cheque a suspicious conveyance beneath Hebbal Flyover recovered respective stolen mobiles. The accused sitting successful the car ran distant arsenic the constabulary approached. But the constabulary recovered 28 mobile phones from the car. A lawsuit has been registered and a probe is connected to place the accused.
