3,400 Stolen Phones Worth Rs. 28.5 Crore Recovered in Karachi

Karachi mobile dealers have handed over 3, 386 stolen, snatched, and missing mobile phones worth more than Rs.

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• According to the Karachi Electronic Dealers Association (KEDA), dealers additionally lately handed over 231 stolen, snatched, and missing phones worth around Rs.
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• KEDA President Rizwan Irfan informed ProPakistani that dealers have been after standard operating procedures to prevent stolen and snatched phones from entering the resale market.

Karachi mobile dealers have handed over 3, 386 stolen, snatched, and missing mobile phones worth more than Rs. 285 million to the Citizen-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) over the past 10 years, according to exclusive details shared with ProPakistani.

For context, the phones were identified when customers brought them to mobile dealers for resale and were checked against CPLC records. PTA Problems New Threat Alert.

According to the Karachi Electronic Dealers Association (KEDA), dealers additionally lately handed over 231 stolen, snatched, and missing phones worth around Rs. 5 million to the CPLC. The phones are projected to be returned to their rightful owners who had registered complaints.

Under an arrangement between KEDA, CPLC, and local police, dealers check new and applied smartphones against CPLC records before reselling them. Phones documented stolen, snatched, or missing are handed over to the authorities.

He remarked dealers inform sellers when a phone is flagged in CPLC records. In a number of cases, even so, suspected criminals tried to sell sizeable quantities of suspicious phones despite being cautioned.

Dealers and the association have so far detained around 20 such suspects and handed them over to the police.

Irfan remarked the employed mobile phone market remains significant for both traders and consumers, offering better margins for dealers and relatively cheaper phones for buyers.

He continued that a significant number of stolen and snatched phones are still traded through informal markets and smuggled throughout the borders with Afghanistan and Iran. PTA Tells Users to Enable This Setting on Phones.

Meanwhile, the administration had considered banning the resale of employed mobile phones in 2016, but traders afterwards developed a verification mechanism with authorities to keep the market operational while preventing stolen phones from being resold. Stay Connected with ProPakistani.

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Muhammad Yasir is a Karachi based journalist with over 7 years of experience.

Taken together, the developments around 3, 400 Stolen Phones Worth Rs. 28.5 Crore Recovered in Karachi point to a situation that is still moving, and the coming days should bring more clarity.