eight Arrested For Posing As Contractors, Stealing MTNL Cables In Delhi: Cops

New Delhi:

Eight folks, who used to steal MTNL cables by posing as contractors, have been arrested in west Delhi, police mentioned on Tuesday.

The accused, recognized as Moshir Siddaquee (25), Azharuddin (33), Pravez (24), Shakib (35), Laddu (24), Manjur Alam (39), Shahid (43) and Mohammad Yusuf, used to arrange cast MTNL orders to dig out the cables, they mentioned.

On the interviewing night time of August 31 and September 1, they went to A-1 Block in Janakpuri and dug out cable with the assistance of a JCB machine and stole the wire, a senior police officer mentioned.

“Throughout investigation, on the idea of a technical surveillance, Siddaquee and Pravez have been arrested. On their occasion, cast work orders and authority letters have been additionally recovered,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (west) Deepak Purohit mentioned.

Later, the opposite accused have been additionally arrested, police mentioned.

All of them are residents of Taran Village in Bihar. They got here to Delhi and began dwelling in Seelampur space, the DCP mentioned.

Azharuddin, who works as a scrap supplier in Seelampur, gathered all of the individuals of his village and deliberate to steal the cables. They organized a JCB machine to dig out the cables, police mentioned.

They first recognized the websites from the place they must steal the cables. After this, they used to arrange a cast work order of that web site and used that paper as a authorities doc, they mentioned.

Later, they used to rearrange a JCB machine and dig out cables from the location and saved them in a godown of Azharuddin in Seelampur.

Thereafter, they used to chop the cables and took out the copper wires from the cables and offered the identical in native markets, the officer mentioned.

A complete size of 60 ft stolen wires, cast MTNL orders to dig cable, one JBC machine, one motorbike, 10 hammers and different gadgets have been recovered from their possession, they added.