KORAPUT: Three men, including two security guards of their SLN Medical College and Hospital, were detained for resisting cellphones of individuals and their loved ones and recovered 18 cellphones in their ownership during Friday night.
According to authorities, the kingpin of the racket, Lali Khosla of the Khitesh village, also conducts a fast food center about the hospital premises and also in affiliation with 2 security guards that they use to sneak cellphones from patients admitted to the hospital along with their attendants.
The security guards throughout their working hours utilized to turn off the CCTV cameras of sufferers ward for a couple of minutes and at the time Khosla was used to steal the cellular phones of patients,” stated Dhiren Pattnaik, inspector-in-charge of Koraput city police station.
He explained after inventing the cellular telephones, Khosla was able to offer them at stores at a reduce cost and utilized to provide some commission into both security guards.
Khosla was detained by our staff when promoting four stolen cell telephones at a store in town, he further added.