Five held for stealing cell phones from firm warehouse in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: Five employees of an e-commerce company were arrested for stealing Rs 1 lakh worth mobile phones from the company warehouse. Md Muzamith and M Anil of Ramanjapur, Ch Shiva of Solipet in Shabad, T M Prashanth and K Bablu of Bhotiguda in Shamshabad were involved in the theft.
On July 31, A Koteshwar Reddy, senior executive (security and loss prevention) of Hyderabad Hub E-com Express in Rasheedguda, Shamshabad, lodged a complaint with the police alleging that unknown persons had stolen phones from the delivery hub.
“Again on August 2, Reddy, along with few of his colleagues, searched the parcels in the delivery hub that came from e-commerce companies. Reddy found out that six cell phones and two imitation gold chains were missing and lodged a second complaint,” Shamshabad SI A Sudarshan said. Based on the complaints, police registered two separate theft cases under section 381 of the IPC and launched investigation. After looking at the CCTV camera footages and employee logs, police picked up the accused for questioning on August 3 and they confessed to have stolen the phones and imitation jewellery.
Police recovered seven stolen mobile phones and two items of imitation jewellery, all worth Rs 1 lakh, from their possession. The accused were sent to judicial remand on Tuesday.