Bike-borne men snatched the mobile of Eenam Gambhir, the first Secretary in the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations (UN) near her house in Outer Delhi’s Rohini Sector-7 area while she was out for a stroll with her mother on Saturday evening.
According to a senior police officer of the Rohini district, the bike-borne men snatched Eenam’s Iphone 7 from her on the pretext of asking for directions. The officer said that since it was evening, she could not note down the vehicle’s registration number. However, the diplomat reportedly told the police that she can identify the snatchers.
As per her written complaint, the diplomat said that the accused asked her for directions to Hanuman Mandir. When she started pointing towards the temple while holding her phone, they snatched the phone and fled. Gambhir stated that the iPhone had a US-registered SIM card and some important files related to her work, they said.
In September this year, exercising India's right to reply after Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi raked up the Kashmir issue at the UN General Assembly, Gambhir had made a strong rebuttal by calling Pakistan a "terroristan".
Earlier this year, Ukrainian Ambassador Igor Polikha's mobile phone was snatched in September while he was taking pictures of the Red Fort, following which one person was arrested. Delhi Police has registered as many as 7,870 cases of snatching this year till November 30.