Seven students of a Delhi Government school in outer Delhi's Rohini Sector-3 have been apprehended for stealing four computers and printers from their school's laboratory.
It was on Friday when they had turned up again for the third time to commit the crime at Sarvodaya Vidyalaya - included in the Delhi Government's ' Model School project' - that they were nabbed by the school administration that smelling some foul lay had laid the trap, according to sources.
This time around the students were caught red-handed while trying to steal gadgets from the computer lab, said police. Following which the school administration suspended all the accused students, who later on were produced before the juvenile justice board by the Outer District police and sent to the rehabilitation centre.
Interestingly, after being caught the accused students-four from class IX and three from class XI disclosed separate reasons for stealing.
While a student said he wanted to keep the computer at his home another said he would have handed it over to his younger brother as he wanted to give him the gift, said police officer.
The incident came to the fore on Thursday when the school administration found that a few computers and printers were missing from the newly constructed computer lab.
"Since, the setting up of modern computer lab was under process. Some staff members noticed on Thursday that a few computer sets were missing. They informed the principal," said a police officer.
On Friday, the officials waited for the students to come.
They saw them entering into the lab from a window on the back side the lab, said sources, adding that after uninstalled the AC the students got inside the lab. It was then that they were caught. Police said further investigations are underway.