Gang involved in supply of SIM cards, mobile phones busted

Kapurthala, January 7

The police on Thursday busted a gang of six persons involved in illegal supply of mobile SIM cards and phones to convicts lodged in Kapurthala jail for carrying out illegal activities.

A team was constituted under Sarabjit Singh Bahia, SP (D), along with Kotwali SHO Harinder Singh and a team of the district technical cell, to check the illegal smuggling. On information, the team nabbed Vijay of Sant Nagar in Basti Sheikh Jalandhar, Shivam of Preet Nagar Kapurthala and jail warden Lovepreet Singh.

The police recovered 16 active SIMs and one Samsung mobile battery. These SIMs and the mobile battery were to be sold to other jail inmates at a huge cost for carrying out illegal activities. An FIR was lodged. — TNS