Overview
- On Saturday, Delhi Police’s Rohini special staff arrested ten people and recovered 325 stolen smartphones valued at about Rs 1 crore.
- The probe began with a June 19 breakthrough that led to initial arrests and the seizure of a courier receipt showing roughly 200 phones had been sent to Kolkata.
- Investigators say the ring operated in layered roles—street thieves, local receivers, warehouse handlers, courier facilitators and overseas receivers—to move devices out of Delhi quickly.
- About 150 of the recovered phones have been matched to registered theft, robbery and snatching cases in Delhi while verification and legal steps to return devices to owners continue.
- Police investigators reported use of hawala payments, identified suspected receivers in Bangladesh and Nepal, and are tracing claimed larger consignments that accused said may total thousands of phones.