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The Delhi Police has arrested 4 persons for allegedly stealing high-end mobile phones from attendees astatine the AP Dhillon performance held astatine the IGI Stadium connected December 7. The Crime Branch has recovered 40 stolen devices, including iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone 16 models, Samsung S24 Ultra devices and different premium brands.
According to police, a squad from Eastern Range-I of the Crime Branch received accusation astir a pack progressive successful lifting high-end phones during the concert. Officers mounted method surveillance and began tracking the suspects, who often changed locations to evade detection. On December 9, the constabulary intercepted their car adjacent Yamuna Vihar metro presumption and apprehended 4 persons – Salman (35), Imran (28), Shahrukh (32) and Wasim (25) – each residents of Ghaziabad.
A hunt of the conveyance led to the betterment of 40 mobile phones, respective of which person already been identified arsenic stolen successful cases registered astatine Prashant Vihar, Shahbad Dairy and IP Estate constabulary stations, the constabulary said.
The recovered phones included 8 Apple iPhones including iPhone 17 Pro Max and earlier models, 7 high-end Samsung devices, including 4 Galaxy S24 Ultras and a Galaxy Fold 6, too phones from OnePlus, Vivo, Oppo, Redmi, POCO and Motorola.
Police said the pack targeted crowded nationalist spaces specified arsenic concerts, metro stations, autobus stands, railway stations, markets, spiritual gatherings and areas extracurricular vino shops. “Working successful coordination, immoderate members would distract victims portion others stole phones. Large concerts, particularly those attended by younger crowds carrying the latest devices, were among their preferred spots,” an serviceman said.
To debar detection, the pack members wrapped stolen iPhones successful aluminium foil to artifact signals and forestall tracking done ‘Find My iPhone’ oregon different services. The devices were past moved to Ghaziabad and rapidly sold successful the grey marketplace astatine debased prices, making betterment difficult.
The constabulary said that during interrogation, pack person Salman revealed that helium formed the radical to prolong a lavish manner and had been operating crossed Delhi-NCR for respective months, committing galore thefts without being caught.
Legal proceedings person been initiated, and the 4 men person been booked nether Sections 35(1)(e) (arrest without a warrant for cognizable offenses) and 106 (property suspected of being stolen oregon linked to an offence) of the BNSS.
