Overview
- The theft took place the night of May 27–28 at Rahul Ceramics Private Limited in Nagpur, where thieves removed tin sheets from the roof and took designer taps itemised at about ₹6.5 lakh.
- Warehouse owner Rahul Jaychand Batra filed a complaint and investigators reviewed footage from more than 20 CCTV cameras and spoke to local sources to trace the case.
- Officers laid a trap and detained two teenage suspects, who told police they stole the goods to raise cash to buy iPhones for their girlfriends.
- The minors sold the sanitary fittings to a local dealer for roughly ₹20,000 and police recovered the items before arresting the adult buyer, identified as 38-year-old Irfan Ali (also known as Immu Ramzan Ali).
- Authorities will process the matter under juvenile procedures for the suspects and the case highlights how youth consumer pressure can drive petty crime and how stolen luxury goods rapidly lose value in informal resale channels.