Tirupati: 450 mobiles worth Rs 81 Lakhs recovered

Tirupati: The Tirupati police have recovered 450 stolen mobile phones worth about Rs 81 lakh and handed them over to the owners, thanks to the latest technology ‘Mobile Hunt App’ introduced by AP police for filing complaints coupled with the latest Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) for efficient tracking and Cybercrime police expertise.

Speaking to the media here on Tuesday, Additional SP Venkatrao said that the mobiles that were recovered were mostly from Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu and West Bengal, while mostly pilgrims visiting Tirumala from various States including Telangana, Karnataka Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and West Bengal have lost their mobiles. He informed that as many as 450 stolen-lost mobiles were recovered in a month and Tirupati police have recovered 1,630 mobiles phones in six spells, total worth Rs 2.93 crore.

The Additional SP requested the public to file their complaints immediately to 9490617873 (Mobile Hunt App), if they lost their phones. After filing the complaint on the app, the complainant will get acknowledgement along with a link for filing the complaint duly giving the details of the stolen mobile. Police with the help of CIER (Central Equipment Identity Register) will block the phone to prevent any misuse of information or data stored in the mobile phone, he explained.

Vekantrao appreciated cyber lab personnel including the lab headed by Cybercrime CI O Ramachandra Reddy and his team including Lakshmi Narayana, Prakash, Murali Krishna, Kumar, Nagarjuna, Jagadish Naik, Sivakumar and Chandrasekhar, for tracing the culprits of mobile theft and recovered them.

ASP Vimala Kumari and others were present on the occasion.