The accused used to sell stolen mobile phones to people in Delhi and Ghaziabad. (file)
New Delhi:
A 27-year-old man, who has admitted to over 100 snatching incidents since he came out of jail in early October, has been arrested from Delhi’s Shahdara area, police said on Tuesday.
Adil Malik, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, is a fitness freak and lives a lavish life with such theft earned. He said that he has a wife and two girlfriends and spends more than one lakh rupees on his lifestyle and girlfriends – one of them is a doctor while the other is a nurse in a big hospital in Delhi.
Police said the accused uses a high-end stolen bike to commit crimes across Yamuna and in Uttar Pradesh border areas, with a monthly target of snatching around 30-40 mobile phones to earn at least Rs 1 lakh per month. Is.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) R Sathiyasundaram said that they have been getting regular PCR calls of a bike rider snatching mobile phone from different areas of Shahdara, North East and East districts of Delhi in the last six months.
“On Monday, SHO Seemapuri Vinay Kumar Yadav was informed that the snatcher would pass through the area of Chintamani Chowk on his bike and accordingly a dedicated team was formed and he was apprehended,” he said.
“Since coming out of jail on October 4 this year, he has confessed to snatching over 100 mobile phones. He spends the money snatched for his girlfriends, takes them to different restaurants and Spends more than Rs 1 lakh. His lifestyle and girlfriend. He has also recently bought a gold necklace worth Rs 1.5 lakh for his wife.”
He sells all the stolen mobiles to the people of Delhi and Ghaziabad. The price per mobile ranges from Rs 3,000 to Rs 6,000. He said that these mobile phones are sold to the customers after tampering with the IMEI numbers.
Police have recovered a country-made pistol along with one live cartridge, a stolen bike used in the crime and two snatched mobile phones.
Efforts are on to recover the stolen items.
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