A 30-year-old man was arrested from Delhi on Thursday for allegedly stealing ₹2 lakh and a cell phone from a Nepalese dealer after luring him to Gurugram over a commerce deal of supplying iPhones at low cost charges, police mentioned on Friday.
Police recognized the suspect as Mohammad Ghalib, initially from Sitamarhi in Bihar, dwelling in Paharganj, Delhi from the place he was arrested by a criminal offense department staff led by inspector Narender Sharmaand was taken on three-day police remand on Friday for interrogation. Police mentioned Ghalib’s one other affiliate, the prime accused concerned within the theft was on the run. Police mentioned the duo had cheated no less than 4 extra Nepalese merchants in an identical method previously.
Sandeep Turan, public relations officer of Gurugram police, mentioned that Ghalib and his affiliate had travelled to Nepal a few months again and had befriended a Nepalese dealer Bharat Shahi, 35, there.
“The duo posed as influential businessmen of Delhi and had promised Shahi that they might get him iPhones imported from the USA at an affordable charge of ₹5000for sale in Nepal,” he mentioned.
Investigators mentioned that the duo saved in contact with Shahi and lured him to Gurugram for a bulk deal on December 29. They’d booked a room for him in a resort in Sushant Lok-I.
Police mentioned that the sufferer determined to check their credibility with 4 telephones and on pretext of the deal, the duo met him on the room on December 29 however fled with ₹2 lakh money and his telephone after locking the room from exterior when Shahi went to the washroom.
On Shahi’s grievance, an FIR was registered towards the suspects beneath sections 305 (theft in a dwelling home) and three(5) (frequent intention) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Sector-43 police station on December 29
