Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Oct 22: In a filmy incident which happened near Hosur on national highway in the wee hours of Wednesday October 21, robbers stopped a container truck moving towards Mumbai from Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, and looted mobile phones worth about Rs 15 crore.
Mobile phones manufactured by MI mobiles at its manufacturing unit at Sriperumbudur were being transported to Mumbai. The robbery happened near Melumalai forest area near Hosur near here. At around 2 am on Wednesday, a gang blocked the lorry in a deserted area in the forest region. The robbers beat up the lorry driver Arun, and his assistant Kumar, dragged them away into the forest and tied them up to trees. They then drove the lorry about ten kilometres ahead, set up a placard indicating that the lorry had developed problems. Then the other lorry was brought there and the mobile phones were transferred to the other truck. About 14,500 mobile phones were there in the truck, as per an estimate. The robbers decamped with these phones.
A person passing by the road heard people shouting from top of their voices from inside the forest, and went looking. He then contacted the police. The police arrived on the spot and undertook investigation.
The lorry deserted by the robbers was taken into custody by the police. They are now searching for the robbers.