Information was received in the Inter State Cell Crime Branch, that gang is involved in sending stolen/robbed smart phones to Nepal. This information was developed, which revealed that a group of persons working in a very systematic manner are sending snatched/robbed mobile phones to Nepal. A dedicated team was constituted under the supervision of ACP Jasbir Singh, led by Insp. Gurmeet Singh comprising of, SI Surendra Sharma, ASI’s Sanjay, Yashpal, Surender Rathi, Abhey, HC’s Bijender, Virender, Ct’s Amit, Mohit, Parminder Ranbir, Sandeep, Jitender and Lalaram, under overall supervision of undersign to nab the criminals, painstakingly, the information was developed which revealed that the snatchers/robbers used to steal the mobile phones handed it over to a middle man 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 used to coordinate 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.
Details of the instant case:
On 25/05/13, complainant reported that she came to Connaught place and one boy riding on a Honda Activa snatched her Mobile Phones.
Modus operandi:
The accused disclosed that they had worked in the Gaffar Market for the last couple of years as mobile repair man. However due to the regular raids by police agencies and fall in the rates of mobile phones, the job of repairing and re -sale of mobile phones had much decreased. 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 snatched mobile phone is restricted with in India, this gave them a new channel to dispose the stolen, robbed, mobile phones. The regular bus transport services made it possible to send the mobile phone to Nepal and thus became quite a lucrative and high return business.
Profile of the accused:
(1) Naresh Kumar R/o Karol Bagh, New Delhi, Age 30 Years, Total 211 Mobile Phones recovered from his possession, initially he used to work in a finance company, then he left the job and started purchasing the stolen/robbed mobile phones and further send it to Nepal to avoid the IMEI tracing.
(2) Mukesh Kumar R/o Karol Bagh, Delhi, Age 38 Years, he used to purchase stolen mobile phones from the snatchers/pick pockets and hand it over to Naresh.
(3) Naresh Kumar R/o Karol Bagh, Delhi, Age 27 Years, he used to purchase stolen mobile phones from the snatchers/pickpockets and hand it over to Naresh mentioned above.
Previous Involvement :-
1. FIR NO. 432/2007 U/s 52/63 Copy Rihgt Act Ps Karol Bagh
(4) Rajan @ Ajeet R/o Paharganj, Delhi, Age 28 years, he used to purchase stolen mobile phones from the snatchers/ pickpockets and hand it over to Naresh.
Previous Involvement:-
1. FIR NO. 306/2013 U/s 379/34 IPC PS Prasad Nagar.
2. FIR No. 0085/16 U/s 323/354a/34 IPC Nabi Karim
3. FIR No. 642/2015 U/s 392 IPC PS Paharganj
4. Fir No. 252/2015 U/s 392/34 IPC PS Pahargarnj
5. FIR NO. 626/2015 U/s 356/379/34 IPC PS Paharganj
6. FIR NO. 232/2016 U/s 392/34 IPC PS Paharganj.
(5) Ram Singh R/o Punjabi Basti, Delhi, Age 58 Years, Permanent address Kathmandu, Nepal, employee of Nepalese receiver.
(6) Gopal Pathak R/o Karawal Nagar, Delhi 31 Years he used to purchase stolen mobile phones from the snatchers/pickpockets and hand it over to Naresh.
(7) Rohit @Kake R/o Kirari Suleman Nagar, Age 23 Yrs. He is a habitual snatcher/robber used to sell the snatched/robbed mobile phones to accused Naresh Kumar.
Previous Involvement:-
1. FIR 247/2011 U/s 25/54/59 Arms Act PS Sultanpuri
2. FIR No. 53/2013 U/s 380/411 Ps Moti Nagar
3. FIR No. 252/2014U/s 380/411 Ps Nihal Vihar
4. FIR No. 510/2014 U/s 457/380/411 IPC Ps Nihal vihar
5. E FIR 35049/2016 U/s 379/411 IPc PS Nihal vihar
6. Fir No. 724/2018 U/s 356/379/411 IPC PS Aman vihar
Cases solved :
By the arrest of the above-mentioned accused persons the following cases have been work out
(1) FIR NO 344/2019 U/s 379/34 IPC Ps Samaypur Badli
(2) FIR NO 780/2018 U/s 356/379/34 IPC Ps Dabri
(3) FIR NO 519/2019 U/s 379 IPC Ps Karol Bagh
(4) FIR NO. OD-NG-000654/2019 U/s 379 IPC Ps Nangloi
(5) Fir No. 595/2019 U/s 356/379/34 IPC Ps Connaught Place
(6) FIR No. 425/2019 U/s 379 IPC Ps Bharat Nagar
Recovery:
• Mobile phones worth 60 Lacs, total 311 mobile phones recovered. The IMEIs and details of recovered phones are being uploaded on Delhi Police website shortly for the public persons to locate their phone and further restoration through legal procedures.
