Crime branch Bhopal would be returning around 160 lost mobile phones tracked at the ‘lost cell phone unit’ in the presence of senior police officers at police control room on Sunday. Around 9500 complaints have been lodged with the lost cell phone unit since its inception in the year 2013. lost cell phone unit, a specialized advanced unit started with the aim to search lost mobile phones yielded results in short period which was witnessed after more than 2000 mobile phones were tracked and recovered and later handed over to the owners.
Additional Police Superintendent of Police Crime Shailendra Singh Chouhan said that during the investigation among the searched mobile phones few of the phones were found active in the nearby districts while few were found used outside Madhya Pradesh and the teams put hard to bring those mobile phones back and is still working to bring the mobile phones back from across the state and outside the state.
This year, 51 and 150 mobile phones were returned in January and March months this year but the highest number of mobile phones which would be returned this year would be 161 which would be handed over to the owners after validation on June 7, he added.
Owners of the mobile phones could take tokens from 10 am to 12 noon from MP Nagar police station and later they would be handed over the mobile phones at police control room in the presence of Senior Superintendent of Police Raman Singh Sikarwar and Superintendent of Police (Headquarters) Anil Maheshwari. The owners were informed through SMS regarding the recovery of the lost mobile phones.