Amazon

Police

deputy commissioner

Pankaj Dahane

OLX

Pranav Borale

Vimantal

The crime branch has arrested a 25-year-oldemployee for allegedly stealing 234 mobile handsets over a year during his employment in Pune.have recovered 45 handsets worth Rs 10.38 lakh from his friends and relatives, to whom he had sold all the handsets. This is the first such case reported in Pune, said the senior police inspector (Unit-1) of the crime branch, Dinesh Patil.The accused has been identified as Suraj Kadam, a resident of Dhanori. According to the information given by theof police, Kadam was arrested on a tip-off. He has been working with Amazon Transportation Services Private Limited for the last four years. People order costly handsets on the online shopping portal and the Pune office gets all the stock from Delhi and Bangalore. During the airport checks, the customs officers open the seal and scrutinise all the stock. Kadam had managed to steal one handset at first. But soon, he realised that nobody took cognisance of that and he started stealing two or three handsets every time.“Kadam used to put the handsets onfor sale and also used to inform his friends and relatives about them. Sometimes, he used to provide the handset as per the requirement of the customer,” said Dahane. One day, the security loss prevention manager,, noticed a huge difference in the stock for the past few months. Some phones were found missing during a routine audit, following which the company began an investigation. Borale then lodged a complaint atpolice station against an unknown person. The case was probed by senior police inspector Nitin Bhosale-Patil, along with assistant police inspector Dhananjay Kapre, sub-inspector Harshal Kadam and senior police inspector Patil.Senior police inspector Suresh Bhosale from Vimantal police station told Mirror, “Acting on a tip–off, we managed to nab Kadam, who was the mastermind behind the theft. He used to work with Amazon as a sorting assistant and for the last one year, he has been stealing handsets from the stock of urgent orders at the airport. He used to steal two or three handsets at one time and sold it at a low price. The customer used to trust him because he used to send the handset along with the bill. We produced him before the court and he has been remanded in four days of police custody.”During the probe, it was revealed that Kadam sold the stolen handsets to people from Mumbai and Pune. This is for the first time that the Pune cops have reported such kind of thefts. Patil got a tip-off that Kadam had come with amobile handset for sale to someone at Bhairav Nagar. The cops managed to arrest him, after which he confessed to have stolen all the handsets. Kadam has been booked under Section 379 of the Indian Penal Code for theft.█ Kadam used to put the handsets on OLX for sale and also used to inform his friends and relatives about them. Sometimes, he used to provide the handset as per the requirement of the customer