Agencies
New Delhi: In a pan India operation against a gang allegedly involved in stealing mobile tower equipment and selling them in Hong Kong, the Delhi Police has arrested 52 people from across the country, an official statement said on Wednesday.
According to police, the gang has exported over 5,000 Remote Radio Unit (RRU), worth Rs 65 crore, abroad so far.
RRU is a transceiver which is installed on wireless base stations/mobile towers. It makes it possible to send and receive text messages.
Special Commissioner of Police (crime) Devesh Chandra Srivastva said with the arrests of 52 accused, 256 theft cases of Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Telangana, Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar and Tamil Nadu have been worked out so far.
The pan-India operation was conducted by the Delhi Police Crime Branch in coordination with other security agencies in the past one year, official sources said.
Srivastva said that 414 RRUs, 110 Base Band Unit (BBU), 161 batteries and RRU testing machine installed by different telecommunication companies at mobile towers installed at various locations in Delhi, UP, Bihar, Odisha, Punjab, Jharkhand, Assam and West Bengal have been recovered at the instances of accused.
The recovered items are worth around Rs 10 crore
The police said the arrests were made between January 18, 2023 and October 26 this year.
“On October 22, the team arrested one of the key members Zuber Malik and initially a total of 63 RRUs along with one testing machine were recovered from him,” the Special Commissioner said.
