Two shopkeepers arrested for selling stolen mobiles, laptops
Delhi police arrested on Saturday arrested a mobile phone shop owner from Punjab and another from Delhi for allegedly receiving stolen gadgets from snatchers in the capital.
The accused are Satender Pratap Singh, 38, hailing from Chattarpur in south Delhi and Chandan Makkar, 21, native of Sri Muktsar Sahib district in Punjab.
Around 250 stolen mobile phones, 15 mobile phone chargers, 19 laptops, 105 laptop chargers, nine iPads, and 24 mother boards of iPhones were recovered from the two. With their arrest, south Delhi police claimed to have solved 41 cases of snatching and house thefts.
Ishwar Singh, deputy commissioner of police (south), said that following a sudden spurt in incidents of robbery, snatching and burglary in south Delhi areas, they constituted a team of special staff to neutralise criminals involved. They received information about one Satender Pratap Singh, a receiver of stolen properties. “The team conducted a raid at Satender’s home in Chattarpur on March 11 and seized several stolen gadgets. We arrested him,” the DCP said.
During interrogation, Satender disclosed to have received the stolen gadgets from one Deepak alias Ganja, a resident of Kirari in Delhi. He also revealed that Ganja used to receive stolen gadgets from snatchers and burglars, and sold them off to one Anmol alias Kaku and Chandan Makkar, both from Punjab.
Police further raided hideouts of Kaku and Makkar in Punjab. Makkar was arrested from his hometown with more stolen goods on March 15, while Kaku is still at large.
“All of them consulted one Gulshan from Punjab’s Bhatinda, who used to change IMEI numbers of stolen phones, because after that, the mobile phones would become untraceable,” said a police officer, adding, they are on the lookout for Kaku, Gulshan and Ganja.