Cellphones worth Rs 46 lakh stolen

AHMEDABAD: High end mobile phones worth Rs 46 lakh were stolen from a mobile shop in Judges Bungalow. The burglars, said police officials, were quite adept since they took care to cut the wires of CCTV cameras fixed inside and outside the shop.
The incident took place at MG mobile shop in Akash tower at Judges Bungalow road. Partners of the shop - Hardik Shah and Yatin Shah – have lodged a complaint in this regard at the Vastrapur police station.
On Thursday, the Shahs had left the shop after locking it up around 9 pm. On Friday morning when they returned, they saw that the shop’s locks had been broken and the central portion of the shutter had been pried open. The duo then intimated the Vastrapur police station.
Later, when the shop owners conducted a quick inventory, it was revealed that 388 high-end mobile phones were stolen worth Rs 46 lakh along with Rs 16,000 cash. “The burglars were only interested in expensive gadgets, cheaper mobile phones remained untouched,” said Vastrapur police officials.
“Inside the shop a night vision CCTV camera has been set up and outside the shop, there is a regular CCTV camera. However, these could not help us much since the burglars had cut the cameras’ wirings before beginning their operations. A few clippings that we have recovered from the CCTV cameras before being disconnected, we can see two youths, one of whom was wearing a t-shirt with check patterns and the other was wearing a shirt. Unfortunately, none of the shots covered faces of the youths,” said police officials.