{
  "id": 8469864,
  "title": "Police uncover links between cattle theft gang and mobile phone racket, arrest nine suspects",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/police-uncover-links-between-cattle-theft-gang-and-mobile-phone",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-19T13:43:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/police-uncover-links-between-cattle-theft-gang-and-mobile-phone-racket-arrest-nine-suspects/article71484833.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Hindu reports that a police operation in Telangana has uncovered a connection between a cattle theft gang and a mobile phone racket, leading to the arrest of nine suspects. The gang, which operated across Nagarkurnool, Mahbubnagar, and Nalgonda districts, was found to have stolen 17 phones, targeting isolated cattle sheds during Ramzan and Bakrid. They allegedly used Xylazine, a sedative, to render the cattle drowsy before loading them into vehicles. After the Ramzan and Bakrid festivals, the gang shifted focus to mobile phone shop thefts, collaborating with a Mumbai-based Farahan Shaik. The stolen phones were eventually smuggled from Mumbai to Bangladesh through intermediaries. Three suspects remain at large, including a Bangladesh national.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}