N Campus mobile snatcher wanted to kill ex-husband
NEW DELHI: The 30-year-old daughter of a Delhi Police sub-inspector and her friend were arrested on Saturday for allegedly being involved in a series of mobile phone thefts in Delhi University’s North Campus.
Ten mobile phones and a Honda Brio car used to commit the crimes were recovered from the possession of the accused.
HT was the first to report about the woman snatcher on October 8.
Police said the woman, Sonam (name changed since police with held her identity), is a divorcee. She wanted to take revenge from her separated husband as he allegedly used to physically and mentally torture her. Sonam snatched mobile phones to hire contract killers and get her ex-husband killed, police said.
She roped in an old friend Neeraj Kumar, also a divorcee, and decided to raise money by stealing mobile phones from students staying in North Campus and adjoining areas, police said.
Police said, a ‘well-dressed’ woman, Sonam, used to drive up to students in a white Brio car and claim that her phone had run out of battery. She then borrowed the phone from the student on the pretext of making an emergency call. After engaging the students in a conversation, she used to snatch their phones .
At least 10 cases had been registered against the couple at Maurice Nagar, Model Town, Roop Nagar and Mukherjee Nagar — within a fortnight.
Neeraj, 30, claimed to have a business of supplying toys and stationery to shopkeepers. He too needed money to pay off loans and to bear his daily expenses.
Milind Mahadeo Dumbere, deputy commissioner of police (northwest) said on Saturday around 8pm, head constable Jitender and constable Satish spotted a woman and a man in a Brio car without number plates near Grand Plaza Mall, Model Town.
“When the couple was questioned about the missing number plates, they could not provide a satisfactory answer. They were then brought to the police station and interrogated after which they confessed to the snatchings,” said Dumbere.