Laptops started selling in Sunday bazaar in Lahore

Lahore: In Lahore, where Friday and Sunday bazaars of various products including fruits and vegetables are held, now Sunday bazaars of laptops have also started where citizens can buy cheap and quality laptops.

Lahore’s Hall Road Market is one of the few big markets in the country where new and old mobile phones, laptops and other electronics are sold. Here every day where thousands of people come to buy goods, hundreds of people also come to sell old mobile phones and laptops.

This most important market of Lahore is closed on Sundays, but people can be seen selling laptops and mobile phones in front of the closed shops and on the footpaths. It would be better to say that there is a market for cheap mobile phones and laptops here on Sundays.

People come from different cities including Lahore to buy mobile phones and laptops from here. There is also a question in the minds of those who come here that the goods bought here, especially mobile phones, are not stolen somewhere? Some people also say that some of the goods sold here are stolen and sold here from other cities and provinces.

Dost Muhammad Khan, the shopkeeper who sells laptops in the Sunday bazaar, says that he brings this goods from Quetta, it is a lot of goods, which is lying in his warehouses in Lahore, he sells laptops only on Sundays. Yes, they give one month guarantee to the buyer. He also said that laptops are imported from different countries through Iran border and port in Karachi. He said that it is not stolen property.

Muhammad Taha, a young man who came to buy a laptop, said that he has bought three, four laptops from here, his experience has been very good, laptops are available here at a much cheaper price than in the general market and variety. It is also more. The laptop that is available here for 30 thousand is available in the market for 40 to 50 thousand rupees.

On the other hand, if we talk about mobile phones, there is more fear that the mobile phone being bought is not stolen. Sidewalk mobile sellers in Lahore’s Container Market and Hall Road mostly have stolen mobiles whose EME numbers are changed with the help of software.

Sometimes the IEMI number of an expensive mobile phone is changed with the help of software to the IEMI number of a damaged, defective and cheap mobile phone which cannot be traced easily. Buyers buy such mobiles in the lure of low prices and later face legal problems if caught.

In this regard, the traders of Hall Road Lahore say that there were some foreign (Afghan) shopkeepers in the market who used to buy and sell stolen mobiles. These people kept their employees who were in contact with the thieves, but since the exodus of foreigners started, they have left their jobs, while some time ago the police arrested several traders who were buying stolen mobile phones and selling them by re-tampering. were

According to Pakistan Telecommunication, 29.56 million IMEIs were identified as duplicates in 2022 by the Mobile Device Identification, Registration, and Blocking System (DIRBS), which were blocked. , were cloned mobile devices.

Javed Iqbal, a trader of Hall Road, says that because of the e-Gadget app, any shopkeeper now neither buys nor sells stolen mobile devices, but citizens who buy mobile phones on the footpath or from a person on the move. KHALL ROAD TRADERS ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE.

Javed Iqbal says that whenever a person comes to sell a mobile phone, his photo, the original ID card check number and the IEMI number of the mobile device are entered in the e-gadget.

If that mobile device is stolen and there is a police report of it being stolen in any area of ​​Pakistan, the app will immediately inform about it. In such a case, we confuse the person who comes to sell the mobile phone and report it to the police. The police arrive within minutes.

He said that two or three such incidents happen every day.

Another shopkeeper, Haji Ashraf, says that no professional thief will ever come to the market to sell a stolen mobile device, but now the smart thieves don’t just steal mobile phones, they steal cash and other valuables but return the mobile phone or if the phone is stolen. Even if they take it away, they throw it away because they know that they will be caught because of the mobile phone.

People who come here to sell phones and during checking here find that the device is stolen, these people either themselves or someone they know bought the stolen mobile phone in ignorance and then they bought it from a stranger on the footpath and Sunday market. will buy

According to Hall Road traders, it is possible that a thief sold the mobile on the same day he stole it, while the person whose mobile was stolen informed the police on the second day. There will be no issue if you register the number e-gadget, however, when the buyer of this mobile sells it further, then it will be caught.

Whenever such an incident happens with the shopkeeper, the police recovers the mobile from us and pays us the amount we bought it for and then the money is collected from the thief. The e-gadget keeps a record of both the photo and the ID card of the mobile seller.

The spokesman of Punjab Police said that from 2019, it is mandatory for all persons involved in the sale or repair of mobile phones to register themselves in the app called e-gadget monitoring system and all registered vendors who come to sell or repair mobile phones. Identity information of individuals, along with IMEI number are bound to be stored in this application. This app has significantly reduced the incidences of mobile phones being stolen or selling stolen mobiles to a vendor.