CHITTOOR: Smart phones worth Rs 2 crore looted from a vehicle which was carrying the load to Mumbai, by reprobates in Chittoor near Andhra Pradesh-Tamil Nadu border.
“One Irfan, driver of a container lorry came to Nagari urban police station on Wednesday morning at around 8.30 am. He said that he was coming from Sriperambudur of Tamil Nadu and was on way to Mumbai. He was taking the lorry from Xiaomi mobile manufacturing unit at Sriperumbudur. He said that the vehicle was at Tamil Nadu-Andhra Pradesh borders at midnight on Tuesday when another lorry intercepted him,” the official said.
“The police contacted Sriperambudur unit of the mobile manufacturing company and gave information to them over the phone. The representatives of the company rushed to Nagari by around 3.30 pm. Then the police took them to the container for checking the property. Company representatives checked the container and informed that 8 bundles out of a total of 16 bundles of mobile phones are stolen from the container. The worth of the stolen property is approximately Rs 2 crores,” the official said.
Gleaned from the complaint made by the company representative, police have registered FIR under Section 395 of IPC( Indian Penal Code).
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