{"id":1030063,"date":"2026-08-20T09:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030063"},"modified":"2026-08-20T09:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:08:28","slug":"tirupati-cops-crack-rs-1-5-crore-mobile-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/tirupati-cops-crack-rs-1-5-crore-mobile-heist\/","title":{"rendered":"Tirupati cops crack Rs 1.5-crore mobile heist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TIRUPATI: In a dramatic six-day chase stretching across several States and closing in on the Bangladesh border, Tirupati police have busted an interstate gang involved in stealing high-end smartphones from large showrooms, and smuggling the booty across the international border. <\/p>\n<p>The gang committed a film-style burglary at Sonovision Mobile Showroom on the AIR Bypass Road in Tirupati in the early hours of August 8 after drilling a hole through the wall. It decamped with 195 mobile phones and five Apple iPads worth around Rs 1.50 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIRUPATI: In a dramatic six-day chase stretching across several States and closing in on the Bangladesh border, Tirupati police have busted an interstate gang involved in stealing high-end smartphones from large showrooms, and smuggling the booty across the international border. The gang committed a film-style burglary at Sonovision Mobile Showroom on the AIR Bypass Road in Tirupati in the early hours of August 8 after drilling a hole through the wall. It decamped with 195 mobile phones and five Apple iPads worth around Rs 1.50 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030082,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030063\/revisions\/1030082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}