Delhi Airport Worker Steals 75 High-End Phones, Asks Friend To Sell Them

In a significant breakthrough, the officials of IGI Airport Police have arrested an airport ground operator for stealing a shipment of high-end mobile phones at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, said officials on Tuesday.

The accused has been identified as Monu alias Nikhil Kumar (28), who worked as a loader at the airport with Air India SATS company and was responsible for ground handling services, including aircraft handling, baggage handling, and cargo handling.

According to the police, Nikhil stole one PVC box containing 75 Samsung S-25 Ultra mobile phones from a shipment booked for Indore at IGI Airport. He hid the stolen phones in an old, unused container at the airport and later removed them in instalments at his convenience.

The police have recovered 36 stolen mobile phones so far and are making efforts to locate the remaining accused involved in the case and to recover the remaining stolen mobile phones.

Investigation revealed that the accused gave 55 stolen mobile phones to his friend to sell and sold two stolen phones to a shopkeeper for Rs 2 lakh.

The IGI Airport police have been investigating the case since February 6, 2025, when a complaint was lodged by the logistics distribution partner of Samsung India Electronics.

Earlier on March 23, the Anti-Auto theft squad of Dwarka district and Baba Haridas Nagar Police station officials arrested four people, including Geetika (Geetu), the wife of a gangster known by the name as Sachin Banje, for allegedly extorting money from a businessman at gunpoint, said Delhi Police officials.

"A case of extortion was registered in the BHD Nagar police station of the district in which four people came to a businessman's house and tried to extort money from him at gunpoint... All the people involved in the whole case have been arrested," the Deputy Commissioner of Police Ankit Singh told ANI on Saturday.

The police claimed that Geetika "played an important role" in the plan to extort the businessman. The other accused in the case, Vicky, has been one of the others arrested, and is currently being interrogated.

"Geetika (Geetu), who is the wife of gangster Sachin Bhanje, she provided the phone and played an important role in executing the entire plan. Apart from this, there are 3 more people, one is Vikas (Vicky) who has more than a dozen cases against him. We are interrogating all of them," the DCP said.

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