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Technology gives the breakthrough

By Our Special Correspondent

GULBARGA, AUG. 3. State-of-the-art technology, which enables tracking of phone calls made on mobile phones, helped police in arresting the three members of the dacoit gang and solve two dacoity cases in Jewargi taluk of Gulbarga district.

The dacoits, who had not left any clues in the two cases, fell into the police dragnet when one of them used a mobile phone hehad snatched during the crime.

One of the arrested dacoits, Siddalinga Karbol, chose to speak to one of the numbers saved in one of the mobile phones he had snatched which proved to be the gang's undoing. The mobile phone belonged to Asha Rani, a lecturer in a college in Bellary.

Siddalinga Karbol's attempt to establish contact with the number (which belonged to Ms. Rani's sister, Reshma) gave away the location of the dacoits to the police.

After receiving the tip-off about the phone call, the Superintendent of Police, Ramachandra Rao, contacted Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited officials and asked them to locate the call and identify the place from where it originated.

The officials tracked the phone call to a place between Jewargi and Shahapur towers, giving the breakthrough to the police.

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