A Class XII student was nabbed by Crime Branch Bhopal and seized three stolen laptops from his possession near Rangmahal square in TT Nagar area on Monday.
He had sold out one laptop on the online marketing website OlX. According to the crime branch of Bhopal police, acting on a tip off a youth was trying to sell 3-4 laptops and on the receipt of the information a police team reached the spot and after searching the youth of description provided in the tip off was found. When he was questioned he was not able to provide details of the laptops.
The detained accused was identified as Atul Verma (19) of Neelbad area. He confirmed that he has stolen three laptops from Piyush Nagar. He confessed that in the need for money he had sold one of the laptops on OlX website at Rs 19000 to Sikandar Khan of Shahbad who was contacted by crime branch after which he returned the laptop and was provided with the refund.
The accused is a class XII student of PNP Convent School. Earlier on March 3, 2014 a complaint was lodged by Sujeet Kumar Kushwaha with Govindpura police regarding his stolen three laptops.
The victim used to live at Piyush Nagar in Awadhpuri with his two friends Som Shekhar Verma and Shanti Shekhar Tiwari. In the complaint the victim claimed that onMarch 3 when they returned after having lunch found that the house was ransacked and their laptops were missing. In the investigation the police have found that the accused was booked earlier for vehicle theft and have served jail term for the same.