Karachi: Shariah Noor Jahan police arrested 4 operatives of the group for stealing mobile phones and changing their IMEI numbers.
SHO Shara Noor Jahan Ghulam Nabi Afridi said that the police arrested 4 suspects Zahid, Ilyas, Adil and Manzoor during a raid on a tip-off and recovered 16 stolen mobile phones, laptops, computers and 2 pistols. are
The arrested suspects, Zahid and Ilyas, are involved in street crimes, while the other 2 arrested suspects, Adil and Manzoor, are experts in changing the IMEI of stolen mobile phones using software and they change the IMEI of the stolen mobile phones of their colleagues. I used to change my number.
Out of the 16 mobile phones recovered from the possession of the accused, the IMEI numbers of 3 were changed while 4 mobile phones were given to Adil and Manzoor for changing the IMEI.
The accused revealed that they used to carry out this work at a mobile market shop in Paposh Nagar while the accused also revealed that IMEI of cheap and damaged mobile phones were stolen by using software in expensive mobile phones. While the accused are also skilled in unlocking block mobile phones in the market.
He revealed that there are more than half a dozen people in the market who do this, the police have widened the scope of the investigation following the revelations of the arrested suspects and are actively looking for others involved in the gang. .
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