Ghaziabad DCP Rijul returns 321 recovered mobile phones to owners

Ghaziabad police returned 321 recovered mobile phones to their owners in the presence of Trans Hindon Deputy Commissioner of Police Rijul. Police estimated the combined value of the devices, belonging to different manufacturers, at Rs 70 lakh to Rs 75 lakh. The handover took place ahead of Diwali, with recipients expressing happiness at receiving their phones back.

In an official statement, the Ghaziabad Police Commissionerate said police stations across the Trans Hindon zone worked with the cyber and surveillance team to recover the devices. The police announcement also carried a statement from DCP Rijul.

Tracing phones reported stolen or lost

According to the police details supplied for this report, complaints had been registered about mobile theft, snatching, robbery and lost devices in different police-station areas. Teams used the Central Equipment Identity Register portal, surveillance and manual inputs to trace the phones. They analysed technical information as part of the recovery effort.

The supplied police account said devices were recovered from different areas, including Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand and Delhi-NCR. Police identified the actual owners before handing the recovered phones back to them.

Kaushambi accounts for 66 recoveries

The station-wise figures supplied for the report list 66 phones recovered by Kaushambi police, 62 by Indirapuram and 61 by Sahibabad. Khoda accounted for 37 phones, while Link Road and Shalimar Garden accounted for 32 each. Teela Mor recovered 31 devices. Together, the figures for the seven police stations total 321.

Photographs supplied with the report show police personnel, people receiving phones and devices displayed on conference tables. The Rs 70 lakh to Rs 75 lakh valuation is a police estimate, rather than an independently assessed resale value.

Source: official statement of the Ghaziabad Police Commissionerate.