Two Delhi residents were nabbed with 25 mobile phones of Apple Company worth Rs 10 lakh by the Bhopal crime branch from MP Nagar on Friday.
During the investigation, the accused were identified as Kapil Arora and Devendra Goyal alias Monu residents of Daryaganj, New Delhi. Both the accused are involved in mobile phone trading business at Gaffar market of Delhi. As the accused were involved in the mobile phone business they were aware to activate and use the stolen mobile phones. They used to buy the stolen and expired mobile phones at very low cost.
They have also obtained as many as five mobile phones by exchanging the IMEI disc from a single mobile phone from service centres situated at Mumbai, Pune, Dehradun and few other cities. To evade arrest, the accused used to submit the mobile phone using fake names at service centers.
According to the police the replacement fraud of Apple mobile phones has flourished in several parts of the county but after the arrest of the two accused people will become more aware regarding the fraud. More goods might be recovered from their possession, suspected the police.