A fire erupted in a mobile tower on a building's terrace after fireworks were set off during Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's roadshow in the Bhosari area of Pimpri Chinchwad on Sunday.
At the beginning of the programme, Chief Minister Sarma, together with Union Minister Scindia and Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran, paid tributes to Zubeen Garg.
A mobile tower in Safdarjung Enclave fell last night as the parts of the National Capital received gusty winds and heavy rainfall on Saturday overnight. There were no casualties or injuries reported in the incident.Delhi received a welcome shower of relief on Sunday from the recent heatwave.
"The fraudsters were found involved in a well-designed module wherein victims were falsely lured for mobile tower installations in exchange for hefty registration fees," police said.
telecom major Bharti Airtel has installed mobile towers in Galwan and Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO), two remote and strategically significant areas of India, located along the Indo-China border.
According to officials, six members of the gang have been arrested, and 130 stolen RRUs, valued at approximately Rs 4 crore, were seized from their possession. The police have solved 47 theft cases reported in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam, and West Bengal.
The incident occurred in the Dhaudai police station area, Narayanpur Superintendent Of Police Prabhat Kumar said, adding that the officials reached the spot and the search operation was intensified.
"All these thieves used to steal radio receiver units and other items from mobile towers. They used to sell all the stolen goods to scrap dealers in Mustafabad," Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADCP) of Police Sachidanand Rai said.
A total of 41,160 mobile towers have been sanctioned with an outlay of Rs 41,331 crore to provide 4G connectivity to about 55,000 villages, the Centre told the Rajya Sabha on Friday.