Mobile shop owners return stolen mobile phones to police in Udupi
Mobile shop owners in Udupi returned seven stolen phones to the police after verifying their status on the Sanchar Saathi portal. The phones were found to be blacklisted, and the sellers had not provided original documents. Police will use the CEIR portal to locate the original owners and return the devices.
- ▪A group of mobile phone shop owners returned seven stolen phones to Udupi police.
- ▪The phones were identified as stolen through the Sanchar Saathi portal.
- ▪Police will search for the original owners using the CEIR portal.
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A group of mobile phone shop owners returned to Udupi Superintendent of Police Hariram Shankar on Wednesday a set of seven phones after finding on the Sanchar Saathi portal of the Department of Telecommunications that they were stolen.In a statement, Mr. Shankar said some mobile shop owners got suspicious over some phones sold to them. They checked the Sanchar Saathi portal and found those phones as blacklisted. The sellers did not give shop owners the original documents related to the mobile phones.A delegation of Udupi District Mobile Retailers’ Association led by president Vivek G. Suvarna met Mr.. Shankar on Wednesday and handed over the mobile phones.
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