With the arrest of seven people, Delhi Police has busted a syndicate of robbers allegedly involved in stealing and snatching phones in national Capital and transporting them illegally to Nepal. Police have also recovered 311 stolen and snatched mobiles phones worth Rs 60 lakhs from the possession of the accused.
According to Rajesh Deo, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Crime Branch, the accused used to steal the mobile phones and handed it over to a middleman who further handed it over to the Kingpin of the gang for further sending it to Nepal.
“The Nepalese receiver had a salaried employee in Delhi, who used to co-ordinate the movements of these mobile phones from Delhi to Nepal and would also facilitate the payment for these phones through illegal channels of monetary transactions,” said the DCP.
The accused have been identified as Naresh Kumar (30), Mukesh Kumar (38) and Naresh (27) all three residents of Karol Bagh in Delhi, Rajan alias Ajeet (28) a resident of Paharganj, Delhi, Gopal Pathak (31), a resident of Delhi’s Karawal Nagar, Rohit alias Kake (23), a resident of Delhi’s Kirari Suleman Nagar and Ram Singh (58), presently living at Delhi’s Punjabi Basti but hails from Kathmandu in Nepal and he was deputed in Delhi by Nepali receiver.
“Specific inputs were received regarding this gang operating in city and sending stolen phones to a receiver in Nepal. A team was formed and subsequently all the accused were nabbed,” said the DCP.
During interrogation the accused disclosed, in the last couple of years the demand of used high end mobile phone had increased in Nepal and other neighboring countries. As the IMEI search of the stolen mobile phone is restricted with in India, this gave them a new channel to dispose the stolen, robbed, mobile phones.