200 stolen smartphones worth `50.91 lakh recovered

Nearly 200 missing smartphones worth around Rs 50.91 lakh belonging to Noida residents have been recovered and handed over to their owners. The police has recovered these phones from parts of Delhi-NCR, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar with many of them being used by people who purchased the devices from the second-hand market.

The phones included devices which were either stolen, snatched or went missing from the possession of owners without their knowledge, the police said. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Noida) Harish Chander said, “A special initiative named ‘Operation Sahyog’ was carried out over last three months to recover these phones.”