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.
In the first case, the police arrested a couple Arun Kumar alias Nanny (23), and his wife Anuradha alias Nikki (20), along with Rambabu (20) and a minor boy.