Cash sent via stolen phone nails couple from Mumbra

KALYAN: A Mumbra resident Shabina Shaikh (35) was arrested on Sunday in connection with the theft of a cellphone and for transferring R 23,000 into her account, using the stolen phone. Her husband, Qasim (42), had stolen the cellphone from a commuter on a local train recently, said an official of the railway police’s Kalyan crime unit. What gave them away was that the money was transferred to Shabina’s bank account.
On June 19, a Dombivli resident Rishabh Shah (40), who was returning home by train, found that his smarphone had gone missing. He later learnt that Rs 23,000 was transferred from his bank account to another person’s account. He filed a case of theft with the railway police.
Assistant police inspector Ashad Shaikh told TOI, “We got details of the bank account to which the money had been transferred. That’s what led us to Shabina.”
The railway police’s crime unit said that their probe revealed that Qasim had stolen the phone and transferred the money to his wife’s account. They are now on the lookout for Qasim.