His interrogation revealed that he had smuggled thousands of mobile phones, stolen mostly from Delhi and other states, into Nepal, said officers | Latest News Delhi
Stolen Mobile Phones: Earlier this year, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had written to chief secretaries and director generals of police of all states and union territories highlighting the slow pace of action regarding recovery of phones. The DoT had shared statistics that despite the phones being traced, a miniscule percentage of devices were being recovered.
A syndicate smuggling stolen mobile phones to Nepal and Bangladesh was busted with the arrest of two people. 153 stolen phones were recovered from a mobile repair shop in Ghaziabad.
A team of East Guwahati Police District (EGPD) from Bhagaduttapur Out Post of Dispur Police Station recovered three stolen mobile phones from a miscreant.