Police yesterday recovered a huge numbers of SIM cards of different mobile phone companies from a water body in Ziapur village of Khetlal upazila.
Khetlal police station Officer-in-Charge Iqbal Anwar said: “Police recovered some 243 SIM cards of different mobile phone companies from the waterbody after getting information from the villagers.
Most of the SIM cards are of Robi, one of the leading mobile phone operating companies in the country,” he added.
However, locals claimed that police recovered more than 4,000 to 5,000 SIM cards from the water body.
Witnesses said one Rizvi first noticed some SIM cards in the water body when he went there to pick some vegetables. Later, he informed the villagers and police about the recovery.
After getting the information from Rizvi, locals rushed in and picked up a huge number of SIM cards before the arrival of the police, the witnesses added.
