Delhi Police announced on Thursday that they have busted an interstate gang involved in stealing Remote Radio Units (RRUs) from mobile towers across the national capital and other states.
According to officials, six members of the gang were arrested, and 130 stolen RRUs, valued at around Rs 4 crore, were recovered from their possession. The police also solved 47 theft cases reported in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam, and West Bengal.
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A Remote Radio Unit (RRU), also known as a Remote Radio Head (RRH), is a vital component of wireless base stations that enables communication between wireless devices and networks. Its main function is to convert digital signals from the base station into radio frequency (RF) signals for wireless transmission.
“We received information from a secret informer about an interstate gang involved in RRU thefts,” said a senior Delhi Police official.
“Our team analyzed data from FIRs filed in Delhi-NCR and other states, and used technical expertise and artificial intelligence to track down the gang,” he added.
Officials explained that a police trap was set near Pandav Nagar, where three suspects were apprehended. The suspects were identified as Adil (25), Sadiq (21), and Adnan (22), all residents of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.
“One of them was found carrying a stolen RRU, which had been reported stolen in a case registered at Karawal Nagar Police Station in Northeast Delhi,” officials said.
During interrogation, the suspects confessed to stealing RRUs from mobile towers in various states.
Police later recovered 126 RRUs from a warehouse in Pandav Nagar, with 43 units confirmed stolen from different police jurisdictions, including 16 from Delhi, 1 from Uttar Pradesh, 20 from Assam, 2 from Bihar, 2 from Jharkhand, and 2 from West Bengal.
“The gang had accumulated the stolen RRUs to export them abroad,” officials noted. “Further investigations are underway to trace the source of the recovered RRUs and to identify other people or groups involved in the plan to export them,” they added.
Police also recovered toolkits used by the gang to dismantle the RRUs from mobile towers.
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