Overview

• Navdeep Kaur and Ramandeep Bhangu have been formally charged after a June 26 raid in Dev Nagar recovered 44 high-end smartphones, including a snatched iPhone 15
• Investigators linked 11 of the seized devices to different FIRs across the city, confirming the operation of an organized syndicate
• Interrogations revealed the gang’s method involved receiving stolen phones, dismantling them on-site, and selling components to local repair shops
• Bhangu was arrested in Nahan while fleeing toward Nepal and was previously held in Bhatinda in a case that recovered about 70 stolen mobiles
• Police are now probing supplier networks in Karol Bagh and pursuing the remaining absconding suspect, Sanjeev Kumar