1,589 stolen mobile phones worth over Rs 1.5 crore recovered, 5 arrested

Approx 8,990 mobile phones were looted on the UP- MP border

On Thursday, around 1,589 stolen mobile phones worth over Rs 1.5 crore were recovered from five people in a joint operation in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh. As per reports, the phones were among the lot of 8,990 that were looted from a truck on the Uttar Pradesh- Madhya Pradesh border in early October while being transported from a factory in Noida to Bengaluru.

Acting on a tip-off, the operation was carried out jointly by teams of Farah police station, surveillance, SWAT, Special operations group (SOG) and special task force (STF) two vehicles of the accused were intercepted near Raipura Jat underpass under Farah police station limits. They were caught while they were proceeding towards Agra to dispose of the looted mobile phones.

The accused have been identified as Rahul alias Aamir Khan of Mathura, and Shahid, Azaruddin, Samir and Ajmal of Nuh district in Haryana. Superintendent of Police (City) Martand Prakash Singh said 1,589 stolen mobile phones were recovered and the five accused were arrested. Reportedly the recovered phones are worth ? 1,58,90,000.

Earlier, the officials stated that 113 stolen mobile phones worth ? 11.3 Lakh had been recovered from eight accused. The investigation is still underway. On 5 October, nearly 9,000 mobile phones worth Rs 7 crore were looted from a Bengaluru-bound truck in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district but the case was registered in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura. The driver was allegedly attacked, beaten up and thrown out of the vehicle by the miscreants who later fled leaving the empty truck in Manpur police station area of Sheopur district.