3 arrested with 193 stolen cell phones in Mathura

Mathura: Police arrested three people and recovered 193 stolen mobile phones worth more than 19 lakhs in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district, an official said Monday.

According to officials, the phones were among the 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 Greater Noida to Bengaluru.

“The defendants were arrested on Sunday as they headed to Agra to dispose of the phones,” said police officer Martand Prakash Singh.

The arrested defendants were identified as Shahbuddin from Mathura and Pawan Kumar and Raju Mandal from Delhi, police said.

So far, eighteen defendants implicated in the scam have been arrested and a total of 2,767 mobile phones have been recovered from their possession.

The cost of the recovered phones is estimated at Rs 2,76,70,000.

The police also recovered Rs 37.92,000 in cash from the defendants.

The loot took place on October 5.

According to a complaint filed by a manager of Oppo Mobile Company, the truck left Greater Noida on the morning of October 5 for Bangalore after charging mobile phones.