Gang which changed mobile phone’s unique id, busted

With the arrest of four men including a software engineer, Indore Police on Tuesday claimed to have busted a gang which changed the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number of mobile phones.

Change of IMEI makes the phone untraceable.

The police also seized 192 mobile phones from the accused’s possession.

The arrested persons were identified as Jitendra Rajput, a software engineer who was allegedly the leader of the gang, Raju Sengar, Sanjay Patel and Bharat Vaswani.

Senior Superintendent of Police Ruchivardhan Mishra told reporters that the accused changed the IMEI numbers of stolen mobile phones by charging Rs 200 to 300 apiece.