151 lost mobiles returned to owners by police

As many as 151 lost mobile phones were handed over to their owners by the lost Cell Unit at the crime branch Bhopal on Tuesday. Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime) Shaildendra Singh Chouhan said that the highest number of mobile phones are lost at the market places while shopping as the attention of the  owner gets involved in purchasing and checking the goods which provides a easy chance for the miscreants to steal mobile phone.

Out of the 7,000 complaints of lost Mobile Unit, the unit has successfully traced around 2,000 mobile phones.

The traced and recovered lost mobile phones would be returned in phases, he added. This time the unit  has worked on the data and found interesting facts regarding the vulnerability patterns during which the mobile phones are lost. Interestingly, people support in returning the mobile phones is encouraging as after people, who find the mobile phones were contacted and they agreed to return the mobile phone and surprisingly, they dispatched the mobile phones through courier.

Highest numbers of mobile phones are lost during shopping while the second highest number could be given to mobile phones lost during travelling and at bus stand, railway stations and public places. Among the searched mobile phones few of the phones were found active in the near by districts while few were found used outside Madhya Pradesh and the team is working hard to brought back these mobile phones.

Mobile phones searched by the lost Mobile Unit have been handed over to the owners after validating. The owners were contacted and were informed to collect their mobile phones from the lost Mobile Unit office.