Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested seven people from Pallabi area in the capital on Thursday night for buying and selling stolen mobile phones and recovered 275 phones and Taka 22,520 in cash from their possessions.
The arrestees are Abdul Jalil, Md Kalimullah, Kaoser Ahmed Tanvir, Sohag Dhali, Md Hridoy Hossain, Nirob Hossain, and Md Roni, RAB-4 ASP (media) Ziaur Rahman Chowdhury said, reports BSS.
“A team of RAB-4 raided the section-11 area of Pallabi on the night of Thursday and arrested the seven persons. We recovered 275 mobile phones, which were snatched or lifted from different locations, from their possessions,” ASP Chowdhury said.
The RAB official said the arrestees used to buy snatched mobile phones from gangs of snatchers and thieves in the capital at a low price and sell those in Pallabi area.
A case was filed in this regard.