Chandigarh/haryana – In a significant development, Haryana Police has successfully recovered 228 stolen/missing mobile phones in a month’s time and handed it back to their original owners. The total worth of these phones is more than Rs 16 lakh. Giving this information here today, Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order), Haryana, Mr Navdeep Singh Virk said that 2048 mobile phones worth Rs 1.61 crore were also recovered and handed over to their respective owners in year 2020. People were pleasantly surprised when they received back their missing phones. Acting on such complaints, IT and cyber cell teams traced the location of the mobile and SIM being used with their IMEI number. The recovered handsets in January 2021 also include costly high-end mobile phones. Most of these phones have been lost accidently by the users while some others were stolen as well. Using hi-end technology, the police have been working to trace missing cell phones and more such recoveries are expected coming days. At 46, the Hisar district recorded maximum recovery of handsets followed by 25 in Panchkula, 15 in Palwal. The GRP also managed to trace 25 handsets during the same period. “For more people, cell phones are more important than their monetary value in which the owner keeps his private data and pictures. As the private data can be misused by the miscreants, our teams continue to track till it is recovered”, he added. Mr Virk also advised the people to immediately approach the nearest police station to report such cases to avoid any kind of misuse of these electronic gadgets.
Haryana Police has given 228 persons a reason to smile in January 2021
