PoliceAI UK: How AI in policing will save 6 million hours and speed up crime investigationsUK PoliceAI is introducing artificial intelligence into policing to speed up investigations, process CCTV and digital evidence faster, tran...
12 Jun, 2026, 05.54 PM IST
iPhone users among prime targets, three held with 66 stolen phones in DelhiDelhi Police apprehended three individuals in connection with a mobile phone snatching and disposal racket. The gang specifically targeted ...
15 May, 2026, 12.03 PM IST
MBA graduate arrested for multiple phone snatchings in Delhi's DwarkaA man with an MBA degree has been arrested in southwest Delhi for allegedly carrying out multiple phone snatchings. Pradeep Kumar Malik, al...
10 Dec, 2025, 04.02 PM IST
Operation Echosteep: How a single stolen iPhone helped UK police bust a $200 million phone smuggling ringA single tracked iPhone helped UK police dismantle the largest mobile phone theft ring in history, uncovering 40,000 stolen devices bound f...
07 Oct, 2025, 10.46 AM IST
DoT's Sanchar Saathi traces over 20 lakh lost, stolen phones: MoS TelecomThe telecom department's Sanchar Saathi platform has successfully traced over 20 lakh lost or stolen mobile phones, as stated by Minister C...
20 Jun, 2025, 09.00 PM IST
From stolen to recovered: How mobile phones are being returned to ownersStolen phones are finding their way back to owners in India. This is largely due to the Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) portal. ...
25 May, 2025, 05.41 PM IST
Redditor claims stolen iPhone resurfaced in Bangladesh, stranger offers courier return. But netizens smell a scamA Redditor claims his stolen iPhone 15 Pro, snatched in Delhi Metro, mysteriously ended up in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A stranger offered to cour...
21 Apr, 2025, 07.41 PM IST
Lost & phoned: Rs 1 crore worth of stolen mobiles find their way back to Ghaziabad from Kashmir to KeralaGhaziabad police recovered 425 stolen mobile phones. The phones are worth Rupees one crore. Police used the CEIR system to track the phones...
15 Apr, 2025, 04.27 PM IST
The costly lesson about phone passwords that some Delhi residents just learntCops recently nabbed two criminal gangs involved in fund transfers using stolen mobile phones. These gangs trained minors to exploit weak p...
22 Feb, 2025, 09.43 AM IST
Delhi: How a son turned detective to nab thieves and retrieve father’s phone without police helpAn airline worker in west Delhi successfully tracked down a man who had snatched his father's phone and wallet by reviewing CCTV footage sh...
25 Sep, 2024, 05.32 PM IST
Where do stolen phones go? To IMEI ‘changers’; Police busts gang in DelhiPolice in west Delhi have arrested three individuals for allegedly changing the IMEIs of stolen mobile phones. The gang reportedly aided sn...
21 Feb, 2024, 07.01 PM IST
Slow police response hampers govt effort to recover lost, stolen mobile phones“We have launched new modules on the Sanchar Saathi portal like reporting international calls with Indian numbers but when it comes to lost...
13 Dec, 2023, 12.40 AM IST
Police response seen slow in helping DoT recover lost mobilesAs per officials, DoT is facing a hurdle in the issue of fake connections too, as states have to initiate penal action against the fraudste...
09 Jul, 2023, 11.54 PM IST
Centre to roll out pan-India mobile tracking system to aid finding lost devicesThe Indian government is planning the pan-India rollout of a tracking system for lost and stolen mobile phones. The Centre for Department o...
14 May, 2023, 12.12 PM IST
2 GoAir officials arrested for stealing phones from a cargo shipment at airport: PoliceOn September 19, a case was registered regarding theft of mobile phones from a cargo shipment that had arrived in Delhi onboard a GoAir fli...
02 Oct, 2018, 04.53 PM IST
Why tracking your stolen mobile phone may be tougher than everMobile phone's IMEI number that could help police trace your stolen device can now be altered using tools available in the grey market.
28 Aug, 2017, 10.27 AM IST
IMEI-tampering: Conmen give cops tough time tracking stolen phonesDelhi Police is facing a tough time tracking the 3,700 cellphones that are reported stolen, snatched away or robbed everyday.
06 Sep, 2015, 12.46 PM IST