Thieves shop with stolen contactless card, get caught in Mumbai

MUMBAI: Two thieves thought they had got lucky when they found a contactless card in a commuter's wallet that they had stolen at Dadar station. The duo hopped over to a store outside the station to shop with the card.
But the details of their transaction were relayed to the commuter via a text alert from the bank and he rushed to the cops to get the duo caught.
Police said the accused, Nikhil Pandey, 28, and Sonu Yadav, 22, had stolen wallets from two commuters in a single day at Dadar station. Both the accused are Andheri residents and cops are verifying if the two have a past criminal history.
On January 11, Badlapur resident Kiran Chavan was on the FOB at Dadar when his wallet was stolen from his backpack around 5pm. Chavan discovered it later.
Between 5.50pm and 6.05pm, another commuter, Shivaji Mundhe from Borivali, was on the FOB when his wallet was stolen from his backpack. Sometime later, Mundhe received a text on his phone from his bank about a transaction of Rs 4,858 made from his contactless card. He discovered that his wallet was missing and rushed to inform the cops on the platform.
"The transaction alert from his bank gave the location where the card had been used. Our team went to the store and picked up Pandey and Yadav soon after they had shopped using the stolen card," said detection officer Manoj Bhagat.