Katihar (Bihar), April 2 Police have arrested a mobile shop owner in the Katihar district for allegedly procuring motherboards from stolen phones and selling them in foreign locations, officials said on Thursday.
The accused, identified as Istaar Alam, was arrested by a joint team of the Special Task Force (STF) of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh police from his shop in the Rautara locality of the district on Wednesday evening.
He was wanted by the UP Police in connection with a case registered at the Lalganj police station on March 17.
According to a statement by the Bihar STF, "During interrogation, the accused said he had collaborated with his operatives in Hyderabad, Tamil Nadu, and New Delhi for selling and supplying motherboards of stolen mobile phones. This indicates the illegal transfer of mobile data of Indian users to foreign entities, which is a serious crime."
The Bihar STF is also trying to arrest his other associates working in the state and in other parts of the country, it said.