Cops seek help from network PROVIDERS TO find STOLEN PHONES

NEW DELHI: Phone snatching has been a common street crime in the Capital for several years now. They are, in fact, so regular, that many such cases go down the drain within a few months, with most phones never to be seen again.

However, in a bid to trace phones stolen or snatched within the last year, a team of South West Delhi Police are now re-checking the last known locations of such phones.

Police sources told Millennium Post that the team is sending IMEI numbers of such phones to the telecom network providers to find out whether the phone has been active in recent times.

Through this, police believe, they could get clues for the phones’ whereabouts.

“By sending IMEI details, we told the concerned department to check which phone is being used the phone and it helps in tracing,” said police source.

To this extent, cops have also submitted written requests to network providers.

Sources claimed that within 10-15 days, police will send all IMEI details of snatched phone.

After snatching a phone, thieves switch them off for a while so that cops cannot zero in on them. After some months, the thieves may switch the phone on, by which time the case is usually closed.

Police have monitored the modus operandi several snatchers, based on which steps have been taken to curb the menace. After collecting the IMEI details of a stolen phone, police send it to the service providers to find relevant clues.

Deputy Commissioner of police (South West) Shibesh Singh told Millennium Post that they are taking every step to ensure safety and security of residents, which have proved to be vital.

Highly placed police sources said that the accused involved in snatching gangs often steal phones in large numbers, after which the phones are smuggled through illegal routes to other Asian countries.

Before the phones are shipped off to other countries, police are trying to find out whether snatchers sometime sent the phone without making a change in the mobile parts.

In many cases, the IMEI number is tampered with, which proves to be another challenge for law enforcement agencies. NEW DELHI: Delhi University’s Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies has inaugurated a sanitary napkin dispenser within their campus premises.

The machine has been installed under ‘Mission AAA’ (Awareness, Availability and Affordability), launched by CSR Research Foundation, an NGO, in collaboration with ONGC. The machine will make sanitary napkins more affordable and readily accessible, by dispensing a pad at a nomimal cost of Rs 5.

The initiative is aimed at encouraging dialogue on issues related to menstruation and feminine hygiene.

At the inauguration, college principal Dr Poonam Verma spoke about the taboo surrounding menstruation and appreciated the efforts of students.

The initiative is the brainchild of the college’s marketing society, Mark-it.

Before the installation, Mark-it conducted a series of preliminary events and awareness campaigns, which focused on breaking myths and stigmas surrounding menstruation, and developing an open environment in the campus.

In September, Indraprastha College for Women became the first college in Delhi University to set up a sanitary pad vending machine in its campus.

“In case of an emergency, it becomes extremely tedious for the students to go around looking for a sanitary napkin. Earlier, they had to exit the campus to buy napkins which was very inconvenient,” said Kajal, vicepresident of Mark-it. NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Sunday detained two main suspects who were involved in the beating up and also stripping of two youth in Shahabad area earlier this week.

Police sources claimed they have identified more accused and the investigation is going on.

They added that they have identified all the accused persons with the help of the mobile video made of the victims and will likely to make arrests soon.

According to police, the suspects were neighbours of the victims and had earlier tried to implicate them for theft in the neighbourhood.

A senior police official said that the main accused is the man who was seen threatening one of the boys with paper foil and had reportedly tried to sodomise the victims.

A few juveniles were also involved in the act. The whole incident was recorded and the video went viral.

One of the victims stated that he saw more than 15 men beating him and was shouting that he will be killed.

“I was sitting when the group of men came and took me to a place where they started beating me. One of them threw chili powder on me and the other threw hot water on them,” said the victim.

He further added that he knew most of the accused, as they had an argument with them in the past.

The video, shot on a mobile phone, shows the teenage victims being kicked by the men on a terrace at the Holambi Kalan village.

The men also poured petrol on one of the youth to intimidate him.

Police said that they got to know about the incident from hospital authorities when the victims had gone for treatment.