Chittagong: Detectives on Sunday seized over 75,000 registered SIM cards from a market in Riazuddin Bazar area of Chitagong city. Seven people were detained in this connection.

Tipped off, a team of Detective Branch (DB) of police launched a drive at ‘Royal Plaza CDA Market’ at Tamakundi lane in the afternoon.

During the drive, they recovered over 75,000 illegal SIM cards from six shops of the market and detained seven people, said police.

They were arrested for selling the SIM cards of different mobile operators those are registered in others' names in the biometric process, police added.

There is no scope for selling SIMs in the open market after the registration under the biometric method, said DB inspector Faruque Ahmed.