Hyderabad mobile phone theft

Hyderabad: In a shocking turn of events, three police personnel were arrested along with six mobile phone thieves by the Panjagutta police on Tuesday. The arrested policemen were identified as Somanna from Gandhinagar police station, Sai Ram from Saifabad police station, and Ashok, a home guard also from Gandhinagar police station. These policemen were allegedly colluding with a Jharkhand-based gang of mobile phone thieves, facilitating their operations by bailing them out whenever they were apprehended by the Hyderabad police.

S M Vijay Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), West zone, Hyderabad police, revealed that the gang’s kingpin, Rahul Kumar Yadav, hails from Theenpahar village in Jharkhand. Yadav orchestrated the gang’s activities, deploying its members to various cities across the country including Hyderabad, Surat, Lucknow, Ranchi, Belur, Chennai, Varanasi, Nagpur, and Patna.

The gang’s modus operandi involved targeting crowded areas such as vegetable markets, metro trains, and religious processions. “The gang members would identify potential victims who kept their cell phones in shirt pockets. They would then create a distraction, allowing a trained member of the gang to pick the cell phone and pass it to another accomplice. To evade capture, the gang would quickly disperse to another crowded location to continue their thefts,” explained DCP Vijay Kumar.

Once they had stolen around 50-60 mobile phones, the gang would notify their leader, Rahul Kumar Yadav. Yadav would then dispatch another gang member, Mukhtar Singh, to Hyderabad and other cities to collect the stolen mobiles. Singh would transport the stolen phones back to Jharkhand, and from there, Yadav and Singh would take the phones to West Bengal, selling them to Bangladeshi citizens near the India-Bangladesh border.

Four additional gang members remain at large, and efforts are underway to apprehend them. The arrested policemen were found to have played a crucial role in aiding the gang’s activities. They would receive money from the gang members to facilitate their release from police custody whenever they were caught.

“The police personnel took bribes from the gang members and helped them get released from police stations. Their betrayal of their duty to protect and serve the public is deeply concerning,” added the DCP.

The investigation into this criminal nexus is ongoing, and the Hyderabad police are determined to bring all involved to justice. This case highlights the need for stringent measures to ensure the integrity of law enforcement agencies and to prevent such breaches of trust in the future.

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