Members of gang held in Madhya Pradesh and efforts on to get transit warrant for Chittoor; most of the booty recovered
The Chittoor police, in a joint operation with the Madhya Pradesh police, cracked the sensational theft of mobile phones worth ₹7 crore in a highway robbery on Nagari-Tamil Nadu border on August 26.
The operation led to the recovery of the booty, except for a few pieces of mobiles, and the arrest of some key members of a large gang, with links spread over Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. A police officer termed the operation as “no less than the film Khakee.”
On August 26 night, a container with 16 cartons of mobiles from a mobile manufacturing unit at Sriperambudur in Tamil Nadu, on its way to Mumbai, was hijacked by a gang near Nagari in Chittoor district. After allegedly assaulting its driver, the gang took away part of the…