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Delhi Police Bust Motorcycle Rental Ring in Mobile Snatching and Open Wider Probe

Police are now investigating whether the seized motorcycle facilitated other unsolved snatching incidents across Delhi

Overview

  • Civil Lines officers arrested two suspects, Zafar and Afzal, in connection with a series of mobile snatchings in north Delhi
  • Investigators discovered the pair paid ₹5,000 per night to rent a UP-registered TVS Apache from technician Nitin Kumar
  • Tracing the bike’s registration from owner Satyaveer in Shamli through his son Ankit in Khajuri helped police map the multilayer rental network
  • Aftab Mansoori was detained for purchasing the stolen phones in Karol Bagh and several seized devices have been recovered as evidence
  • Authorities have expanded the probe to determine if the same motorcycle was used in other unresolved mobile-snatching cases across the capital