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Four steal 140 smartphones, sit by bonfire before fleeing | Pune News


Pune: Four men stole at least 140 smartphones and Rs1.47 lakh, totally worth Rs17.72 lakh, from a store in Bhosari around 3am on Wednesday, put the gadgets in two backpacks and spent some time next to a bonfire to beat the pre-dawn chill barely two stores away before fleeing.
Police said the bonfire was on in front of a jewellery store and the four men shared its warmth along with two persons, including the watchman of one of the shops in the area. The police said the duo did not even realize that the four men were sitting next to them and having a hearty chat after committing a theft.
The crime came to light around 10am when two employees of Shri Sai Enterprises opened the shutter of the store and found the empty boxes of cellphones lying all over. They alerted shop owner Visham Nimse (32), who lodged an FIR with the police.
Nimse told TOI that the shop had eight CCTV cameras, but the thieves had made off with their digital video recorder as well. “We obtained CCTV footage from the neighbouring shop and found that four persons were involved in the crime,” he said.
The shop owner said the footage revealed that the four men had entered the store around 3am by breaking the locks of its shutter. He said, “They took the smart phone boxes from the display rack. They took away nearly 140 handsets, each worth around Rs10,000, but left the chargers behind. They also stole Rs1.47 lakh from the cash counter inside the store.”
Nimse said the CCTV footage also showed the four men coming out of the store with two backpacks and then halting near the bonfire in front of the jewellery store. “One person was sitting near the bonfire. They had a talk with him for quite some time. The watchman of the shop was also there. But they apparently did not suspect anything unusual,” he said.
An officer from the Bhosari police said, “We have shared the CCTV footage showing the four men with our informers. We are working on some clues to arrest them.”





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