Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Ayodhya Nagar police on Tuesday arrested two notorious mobile snatchers and recovered 19 phones from their possession.
The arrested accused confessed to have snatched dozens of mobile phones from people and selling them to earn cash, police said.
DCP Zone-2 Sanjay Agarwal said a team was constituted after mobiles of two persons were snatched at Ayodhya Nagar and MP Nagar during the last two days.
TI Ayodhya Nagar police station Mahesh Lilhare and his team scanned CCTV footages and used surveillance to trace the mobile snatchers. On Tuesday, the police team nabbed two suspects who confessed to their involvement in incidents of mobile snatching.
One of them was identified as Sahil Lala (24), a resident of Qazi Camp area while his aide is a minor.
Police recovered 19 mobile phones which they have snatched from people along with bikes which they used in crime. The accused informed that they used to target people whom they spotted walking on foot and talking on their mobile.
They snatched their mobiles and sped away on their bike. Sahil Lala has eight cases registered against him under arms act, gambling and other sections at Koh-e-Fiza, Hanumanganj, MP Nagar, Ayodhya Nagar and Shahjehanabad police stations.
