In what seems to be the plot of Bollywood’s widespread film ‘Bunty & Babli’, a real-life con duo from Delhi has been arrested by the police after a string of audacious thefts.
The con couple, recognized as Pawan Kumar Bir Singh and Anita Sharma, had been apprehended on a practice close to Bihar’s Bodh Gaya final week, following their alleged involvement within the theft of 38 laptops from a Nagpur dealer, The Instances of India reported.
The duo, who adopted the moniker ‘Bunty and Babli’ of the famed film characters, are additionally accused of stealing 85 laptops valued at a staggering ₹35 lakh from a store in Noida.
In accordance with the police, the criminals stole at the least 150 laptops from totally different cities and subsequently bought them within the gray markets of Delhi.
TOI additional reported that after a profitable heist, Pawan and Anita would escape to vacation locations till their ill-gotten beneficial properties ran dry, identical to the prime characters within the film.
After concluding the current heist in Nagpur, that they had set their sights on conducting a theft in Puri when police caught wind of their plans and caught them.
Performing on a criticism from a showroom proprietor, the Bajaj Nagar police launched a probe and seized 12 laptops from the gray market in Delhi.
The duo had reportedly bought these brand-new stolen devices at discount costs starting from ₹10,000 to ₹15,000 every, with gray market merchants then reselling them for ₹25,000 to ₹30,000.
How Pawan, Anita lured merchants
Pawan and Anita approached laptop computer merchants below the guise of administrators of an IT firm and used their attraction and ingenuity to seal offers with them, TOI reported including that their clean discuss and Anita’s proficient English managed to win over the showroom proprietor, who willingly provided 38 laptops to be arrange as workstations in a rented corridor close to Laxmi Nagar.
Nevertheless, the next day, the couple vanished, taking the laptops with them and shutting off their cell telephones.
Anita and Pawan had been caught utilizing superior cellphone surveillance methods, resulting from which the police had been capable of hint them on a practice in Bihar, resulting in their seize on November 16.
The con duo was despatched to police remand until November 23.
