Vastrapur police have arrested two men from Uttar Pradesh and Haryana for breaking into PG accommodations in Ahmedabad and Surat at night and stealing 14 mobile phones when the doors were left open.

The arrested individuals have been identified as Hannan Imran Saiyed (30) from Nizamabad, Uttar Pradesh, and Tabrez Iqbalkhan (27) from Fatehpur, Haryana.

The Vastrapur police team recovered a total of 14 stolen mobile phones – six from five PGs in Ahmedabad and eight from different PGs in the Rander area of Surat.

Hannan and Tabrez had come to Ahmedabad and Surat under the pretext of working as laborers. At night, they would roam around looking for PGs with open doors, sneak in, and steal mobile phones.

The two accused have been charged with five FIRs in Ahmedabad for stealing six phones and one FIR in Surat for stealing eight phones.

Notably, five mobile phones were stolen near Vastrapur over the last weekend in four different instances of theft.