Summary:
Kolkata: Kolkata Police has busted a racket of mobile phone lifters that operated in buses. According to sources, since Durga Puja, Maniktala police station officials planned to conduct checks inside the buses as mobile lifters had become active during the festive season taking advantage of crowded buses. While he was travelling, he saw a youth was trying to steal a mobile phone and wallet from passenger. A mobile phone was found from his possession, which was also stolen from Maniktala area on Tuesday. After Shaikh was interrogated, the police came to know about another mobile lifter, identified as Bapi Naskar alias Tapas of Baruipur in South 24-Parganas..