Police open fire in Hyderabad to apprehend mobile thieves

HYDERABAD : Police fired in the air after four college students tried to steal a mobile phone from a cop in mufti near a bus stand at Mettuguda here in the early hours of Saturday.

According to police, the incident took place on Saturday around 2.30 am and nobody was injured. The students, have surrendered and questioning is on, police added.

“Decoy operations are underway and the gang was trying to snatch the phone from one of the cops who was made to stand near the bus stand,” a senior official revealed. “We were trying to lure snatchers by positioning our men to look like a meek common person at the bus stand,” he added.