Dholpur police recover 150 lost mobile phones worth Rs 30 lakh, return them to owners using CEIR portal

Jaipur: The district police in Dholpur have recovered around 150 lost mobile phones, valued at approximately Rs 30 lakh, and returned them to their owners after tracing the devices through the central CEIR portal, officials said in a press note issued on May 5.

Superintendent of Police Vikas Sangwan handed back several of the recovered phones to their owners at his office on Tuesday. According to the police, the operation was carried out under the supervision of Inspector General of Police, Bharatpur Range, Kailash Chand Bishnoi, and SP Sangwan, with Additional Superintendent of Police Vaibhav Sharma directly overseeing the work and Cyber Cell in-charge Head Constable Narendra Singh leading it on the ground.

Police said the lost handsets were logged on the CEIR (Central Equipment Identity Register) portal and the data was monitored regularly to identify devices and their current users. The information was then passed on to teams attached to the relevant police stations, which traced the phones to roughly 15 districts of Rajasthan as well as Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand.

The recovery was a joint effort by the district Cyber Cell and the CEIR units running at individual police stations. The press note added that Dholpur police had earlier run awareness drives encouraging residents to register lost phones on the CEIR portal so that the devices could be traced without difficulty.

The team that worked on the recoveries included Sub-Inspector Ghanshyam Singh (in-charge, DST), Head Constables Narendra Singh (Cyber Cell in-charge) and Bhura Singh, and Constables Nilendra Singh, Harvendra Singh, Dinesh Kumar, Rahul Kumar, Narendra Singh and Ramu Meena of the Cyber Cell, along with Constable Devendra Singh of Kotwali Dholpur police station and Constable Dhara Singh of Saipau police station, both of whom played a special role.