Baikunthpur (Korea). Korea police has arrested four suspects and recovered 206 mobile phones from them. All the four accused are residents of West Bengal and Jharkhand, who used to buy old mobile phones by giving household items. The case is from Patna police station area of Korea district. These mobile phones could have been used on a large scale in cyber fraud. The arrested accused have sold stolen mobile phones in Kolkata earlier as well.
According to the information, on 6 August 2024, Superintendent of Police Korea received information from an informer that some people from West Bengal are roaming around in the police station area towards village Anjokhurd. They have a large number of mobile phones with them. They ask for old phones from people and give them essential household items. The Superintendent of Police got suspicious about this. The SP directed the police station in-charge Patna to take necessary legal action.
On the instructions of SP, the team of Patna Police Station reached the spot and raided the place, where four persons Riazul Haq, Sendu Sheikh, Farooq Sheikh and Ibadu Rehman were found roaming in suspicious condition. On interrogation, all of them said that they were from West Bengal and Jharkhand. The sack kept with them was checked, from which a sack full of mobile phones of different companies was found. All the mobiles were recovered in front of witnesses and counted, in which a total of 206 mobiles of different companies were recovered. Notice under Section 94 BNSS was given to the four suspects regarding the ownership of the mobiles recovered from them. In the absence of valid documents, all the four accused were arrested and legal action was taken. The accused told that they take all the mobiles to Calcutta and sell them in different shops.
It is worth mentioning that places like West Bengal, Jamtara are the main centers of online fraud in the whole country, where mobiles can be used in this way. On the basis of this suspicion, the suspects were caught and 206 mobiles were confiscated and further action was taken.
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