<p>Forty stolen mobile phones worth Rs 7 lakh were recovered by police who arrested a two-member gang.</p>.<p>Mohammed Sajjad, a garage mechanic from Lingarajapuram, would snatch the phones of people walking alone on roads at night and hand them to his friend Arun, who runs a mobile phone service shop in Basaveshwaranagar. Arun would sell the stolen phones to customers in his shop and sometimes use their spare parts to service faulty devices, police said. </p>.<p>Koramangala police said Sajjad had stolen the phones in Koramangala, Puttenahalli, JP Nagar, Madiwala and other parts of South and Southeast Bengaluru. He was previously arrested for stealing two-wheelers and released on bail, police added. </p>.<p>Koramangala police inspector Nataraj D N and his team zeroed in on Sajjad while investigating a robbery reported by Yash Gaur, a college student who lives as a paying guest in KHB Colony, Koramangala. </p>.<p>Gaur told the police that he was talking to someone on the phone near the PG accommodation around 11 pm on October 6 when a man snatched it and ran off. CCTV footage helped the police identify the robber as Sajjad. Police arrested him and, based on his confession, picked up Arun. </p>
<p>Forty stolen mobile phones worth Rs 7 lakh were recovered by police who arrested a two-member gang.</p>.<p>Mohammed Sajjad, a garage mechanic from Lingarajapuram, would snatch the phones of people walking alone on roads at night and hand them to his friend Arun, who runs a mobile phone service shop in Basaveshwaranagar. Arun would sell the stolen phones to customers in his shop and sometimes use their spare parts to service faulty devices, police said. </p>.<p>Koramangala police said Sajjad had stolen the phones in Koramangala, Puttenahalli, JP Nagar, Madiwala and other parts of South and Southeast Bengaluru. He was previously arrested for stealing two-wheelers and released on bail, police added. </p>.<p>Koramangala police inspector Nataraj D N and his team zeroed in on Sajjad while investigating a robbery reported by Yash Gaur, a college student who lives as a paying guest in KHB Colony, Koramangala. </p>.<p>Gaur told the police that he was talking to someone on the phone near the PG accommodation around 11 pm on October 6 when a man snatched it and ran off. CCTV footage helped the police identify the robber as Sajjad. Police arrested him and, based on his confession, picked up Arun. </p>
