Woman plotted husband's phone snatching to delete 'intimate photos' with lover
New Delhi, Jul 11 (PTI): A woman allegedly sought help from two men to get her husband’s phone snatched in south Delhi’s Sultanpur area to delete intimate photos with her lover stored on the device, an official said on Friday.
The men allegedly carried out the snatching and had been absconding since the day of the incident on June 19, they said.
One of them, Ankit Gahlot (27), was arrested who said told police that the woman was in a relationship with another man and her husband had their photos on his phone, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Ankit Chauhan said.
"To retrieve and erase the images, she orchestrated the snatching,” he said.
She provided her husband’s daily route and work timings to the the two men. On June 19, they allegedly snatched the phone and fled, he added.
The DCP said a PCR call was received about a mobile snatching near Old UK Paint Factory, Main Market Road, Sultanpur.
"The complainant told police that two masked persons riding a scooter snatched his phone and fled,” the DCP said.
The pillion rider was spotted wearing a blue T-shirt, and an ANPR scan from Vasant Kunj helped identify the scooter’s registration number. It was found that the scooter had been rented from Daryaganj for a single day, the officer added.
Using rental documents and Aadhaar-linked data, the accused were traced to Balotra in Rajasthan’s Barmer district, he said.
After the crime, the duo checked into a hotel in Old Delhi to evade arrest, the DCP added.
The woman has been bound down in the case, while efforts are on to arrest another associate who is absconding, police said.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
