Daijiworld Media Network – Puttur (SP)

Puttur, Oct 21: Both the inter-state mobile phone thieves, Mohammed Sufail and Ismail, who used to steal mobile phones by breaking open the shutters of various mobile phone stores, were handed over to three days of police custody by the local court on Thursday October 20. The policemen had sought five days police custody of both the thieves to extract information about their other criminal activities and to confiscate such goods by visiting various places.

When both of them were produced in the court on October 19, Sufail had claimed that he was a minor. Perhaps knowing fully well that minors enjoy certain concessions and immunities from legal action, he said he was 17. The judge, taking note of his submissions, directed the policemen to produce him again on Thursday along with records to confirm his actual age. Police sub-inspector of the crime branch of the town police station here, P Aitappa, succeeded in securing date of birth proof of Sufail through  Kasargod police, which showed that Sufail was aged 18 years and six months.