17 October,2023 04:10 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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Mumbai Police on Tuesday said that the Deonar Police in the eastern suburbs of the city was successful in tracing as many as 25 recently lost or stolen mobile phones from their jurisdiction and returned the recovered phones to their original owners.
According to the police, the Deonar police had received multiple complaints of lost or stolen mobile phones in 2023. The police began to trace the phones and were successful in not only tracing the phones but also recovering them.
The police said, the senior police officials guided the team of officials to trace the lost or stolen mobile phone. The officials including police officials from Deonar Police and the cyber crime cell managed to use the technical clues to trace the phones.
"After the recovery of these mobile phones, the senior Mumbai police officials decided to hand them over back to their original owners. The mobile phone owners were invited for the return of property program on Tuesday and they were given their phones back," an official said.
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Meanwhile, in July this year, the MIDC police had traced and recovered at least 100 mobile phones which were either lost or stolen during 2022-23, from different cities and states, an official had earlier said.
The MIDC police station, located in Andheri (east), has jurisdiction over industrial units in the area.
These phones were recovered from Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka and other places, and returned to their owners who had lodged complaints, the official said.
"Earlier, 350 mobile phones, reported missing from January to May this year, were returned to their owners. A special team was formed to trace these phones," the official had added.
In May, the Police in Maharashtra's Thane city had returned 711 mobile phones worth nearly Rs 1.28 crore that had been either stolen or lost to their owners, an official had earlier said.
The devices were traced between January and April and police made the use of the Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR), said the official.
CEIR is a portal of the Department of Telecommunications to trace lost or stolen mobile devices. It also facilitates blocking of such phones.
