Crime

MTech among five arrested for conning e-tail giants

Manpada Police in Dombivli have arrested a gang of five including the mastermind who’s an M Tech graduate, for duping companies like Amazon and Flipkart by using fake Aadhar cards.

The gang would place online orders for mobile phones, tablets, iPads, and at the time the delivery, while some would keep the delivery boy busy by counting money, others would open the packet, replace it with waste of same weight and reseal it. They would return the parcel stating that they are short of the amount, and would later sell the stolen items at cheaper rates.

The accused have been identified as Robin Antony Aruja (28), Kiran Bansode (26), Rocky Dineshkumar Karn (22), Navin Singh (22), and Alok Yadav (20). “So far we have seized 22 mobile phones of brands such as, Apple, Samsung, Vivo, one laptop, and one ipod.”

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