Satellite phone found on island near Kandla port

Rajkot: Security agencies in Kutch comprising local police, special operations group, central and state intelligence bureaus have started investigating into how a satellite phone reached an island near Deendayal port in Kandla of Kutch a few days ago. A fisherman had brought the instrument to the police station on Monday evening after he had found it on Paprva island in Navlakhi channel near jetty number 10 of Deendayal Port.
Cops, however, are tight-lipped if the instrument has any link to the suspected ship which had been seized by the customs department a few days ago.
Fisherman Ibrahim Abbabhai went fishing near the island a few days ago and discovered the instrument in its in cover and thermal-wrapped, which security agencies have identified to be Inmar satellite phone. It is prohibited for use of common people. According to Abbabhai, he came to know that it is no ordinary phone when he took it to a store to insert sim card and informed Kandla Marine police station about the phone.
Talking to media, SP, Kutch (east) Parikshita Rathod said, “We are trying to get its IMEI number and CDR to find out where it had been used. Thereafter we will come to know where it had been used.”