A police driver at Mehdipatnam station was arrested for allegedly stealing a recovered mobile phone worth ₹1.75 lakh. The device had been seized from a thief, but vanished from a station drawer. An internal inquiry traced the theft to the policeman, who was remanded.

Hyderabad: A policeman was arrested by the Mehdipatnam police for allegedly stealing a phone recovered from a thief.

According to the reports, the policeman, who is identified as Kumar, worked as a driver at the Mehdipatnam police station. A few days ago, a man had approached the police and made a complaint that his mobile phone valued at around Rs. 1.75 lakh was knocked away by some offenders at Mehdipatnam Rythu Bazaar located beside the Mehdipatnam police station.

After verifying the closed circuit camera footage, the p

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