The Secondhand Smartphone You Bought Cheap Might Be Stolen!

From Connaught Place area, one of the largest commercial and business centers of the capital, 207 mobiles were reported missing.

In August 283 mobiles were stolen from the capital.

In 2013, the number of stolen mobiles was 15,669, a rise from the 2012 figure of 13,747. The 2011 figure was 12,600 and in 2010 it was 10,704.

Another police official, on condition of anonymity, told IANS: "The mobile theft figure is much higher than reported because several people don't bother to go to police stations to file complaints."

Whenever they get a complaint, the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number - a unique 15-digit number assigned to all cellular devices - is put on tracking, he said.

"We can track any mobile being operated all over the country with the use of special tracking device," said another official, requesting anonymity.

"We recover some of the phones with the help of tracking device. As some of the stolen mobiles are used by criminals, we can recover them only after their arrest," said the official.

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