Buy a used phone? You might want to get the IMEI verified

New Delhi: If you buy a used phone, you might want to verify the IMEI number with Delhi police.
The police have become a black list handset and blocking Imeis to curry sales of stolen handsets.
This is a significant and in accordance with the data accessed by TOI, 94,204 handsets recorded by police between May 20 last year and July 14 this year.
Police Commissioner Delhi Balaji Srivastava has been learned to recently reviewed the progress of this drive that is being carried out as part of the Ceir project (central equipment identity list) in collaboration with the telecommunications department of the central government.
Telematics Development Center, GSM Association, and Telecommunications Service Providers have also been taken.
IMEI can be verified by entering zipnet.delhipolice.gov.in.
“Someone has to enter the IMEI number of cellphones that intend to buy.
If the phone has been reportedly stolen in Delhi, the IMEI is at ZIPNET,” said Chinmoy Biswal, a police spokesman Delhi.
Balisk added, “If someone tries to use a black device using a SIM, the service provider involved will capture.
Access data logs / traceats that contain details such as cellphone numbers, IMEI, etc., and report it to the Ceir project to facilitate police actions in searching the device .
“Stolen phones are often purchased and used by commoners and antisocial and antinational elements, pose threats to national security.
A number of stolen cellphones are believed to now land with organized crime gangs, whose first task is to ensure that law enforcement cannot track the device.
They use special software and instruments to remove existing Immeis and to assign new numbers to stolen handsets.
In this way, some handsets often end with the same Imei.
It is the same project place.
That is where the Ceir project came.
This allows reporting, blocking and proficcal the number of imei devices reportedly stolen or lost.
BISWAL explained, “Identity of International Cellular Equipment (IMEI) is a 15-digit identifier for each mobile device and uniquely identifies each cellphone handset.
However, there are currently many cases of IMEI cloned / duplicate handsets.
If the IMEI cloned number is blocked, a large number of cellphones will be Blocked also because they bear S Ame identifying numbers, causing discomfort for many users.
“When a police complaint was submitted after the user marked the phone as stolen, the device / IMEI was marked as a blacklist through the ZIPNET system after verification of theft.
A list of all the devices marked and blacklists are shared with telecommunications service providers, which take steps to block this device on their network.
After being blocked, the handset can no longer access any network in any part in India.
Balikwal said Project Ceir was launched in Maharashtra and Delhi to make it possible to block and track cellphones.
“Based on learning from this launch, this facility will be extended throughout India,” he said.