The associate of Salmara Ashraf of Puttur, Shakir @ Md. Shakir was nabbed on Saturday 18-02-2006 at Puttur on receiving information about his visit. It may be recalled that on 30-10-2005 a theft was commited at Mobile Care Centre of Puttur wherein thirteen Mobile phones along with mobile phone recharge currency were stolen. The main accused Salmara Ashraf was nabbed on 27-11-2005 and about seven phones were recovered from him. On his interrogation it was learnt that he had committed the offence along with Shakir of Kasargod. After the arrest of Shakir, on questioning he revealed that he had received about six mobile phones as a share of his booty. All the six phones were then recovered from his wifes house in Salmara, Puttur. With the arrest of Shakir the case is now completely solved.