Mumbai: MIDC Police trace and recover 100 stolen or missing mobile phones

The MIDC police in Mumbai has traced and recovered at least 100 mobile phones which were either lost or stolen during 202223 from different cities and states an official said on SaturdayThe MIDC police station located in Andheri east has jurisdiction over industrial units in the areaThese 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 saidNo arrest is madeEarlier 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 addedMeanwhile the Maharashtra AntiTerrorism Squad ATS has arrested a man from Ratnagiri district for providing financial aid to two terror suspects who were taken into custody by the Pune police on July 18 taking the number of arrests in the case to fourAccording to a press release issued by the ATS on Saturday the person from Ratnagiri was earlier detained However he was arrested on Friday after a probe showed his involvement in the caseThe man provided financial help to the two terror suspects who were arrested by the Kothrud police in Pune said the release The ATS has not disclosed the identity of the personAlso readMaharashtra Residents attack power company employees in Bhiwandi two injuredThe ATS said a team that went to another state to investigate the case has issued a notice to a suspect asking the person to appear before it for inquiryThe agency on Wednesday arrested a man named Abdul Qadir Dastgir Pathan in Pune for providing shelter to the terror suspects Mohammad Imran Mohammad Yunus Khan 23 and Mohammad Yunus Mohammad Yakub Saki 24The ATS which recently took over the probe from Pune police said that it recovered black ldquoexplosiverdquo powder laptops parts of drones and books written in Arabic among other things from Khan and Saki in addition to a tent that they had allegedly procured to stay in forest areas in Punes adjoining districtsKhan and Saki wanted by the National Investigation Agency NIA for their alleged involvement in a terrorrelated case in Rajasthan were nabbed from the Kothrud area of Pune city on July 18Khan Saki and Qadir have been remanded in police custody till August 5The two arrested terror suspects hail from Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh and are graphic designers Both carried a bounty of Rs 5 lakh each the police saidThey fled Ratlam after learning that their names had cropped up in an investigation into a terror case in which some suspected members of the AlSufa outfit were apprehended by the Rajasthan police from the MP town the police saidThey reached Mumbai where they stayed in the Bhendi Bazaar area for two to three days and then came to Punes Kondhwa area The duo took up jobs with the help of a local resident sources had said earlierThey befriended a third person a resident of Jharkhand who managed to escape when the police nabbed the duo police saidIn Kondhwa the two happened to meet Qadir and told him that they had come to Pune in search of jobs as their financial condition was weak the sources saidQadir who himself was involved in graphic designing work provided them jobs and sublet the place he had taken on rent they said