Cellphone Thief

Clips from a widely circulated video, showing a specially abled man light a matchstick with one hand in a dark showroom and calmly steal an iPad, a laptop and a cellphone, have helped the Delhi Police catch the theft accused.

No doubt about it, crime has gotten harder at a time when surveillance cameras are everywhere. But maybe those cameras have made it easier to have a conscience. Monday morning, a man walked into a music school and store in Richmond, Virginia, and when no one was looking, he swiped both a clarinet and a cellphone, Richmond police said. A camera behi...

A Delhi Police Constable was injured and a Police Control Room Van (PCR) was damaged when a police team tried to rescue a man who was being thrashed by a mob for allegedly stealing a woman's cellphone in Gol Dak Khana area yesterday, police said.

A thief had a change of heart after stealing three cellphones and he returned the handsets to the owner, a young woman, via courier and also gave her a piece of advice about safe upkeep of valuable items.

The accused used his cellphone as a torch while stealing silver valuables from a jewellery store; CCTV camera captured the image that helped police officials nail him

The perils of social networking are many, some less obvious than others. Ghaziabad resident Rishi, who is also an Amity University student, met Purnima on Facebook four months ago. They became good friends and started having telephonic conversations. Finally they decided to meet at a coffee shop in the posh Noida Sector 18 market on Tuesday afterno...

Clips from a widely circulated video, showing a specially abled man light a matchstick with one hand in a dark showroom and calmly steal an iPad, a laptop and a cellphone, have helped the Delhi Police catch the theft accused.

No doubt about it, crime has gotten harder at a time when surveillance cameras are everywhere. But maybe those cameras have made it easier to have a conscience. Monday morning, a man walked into a music school and store in Richmond, Virginia, and when no one was looking, he swiped both a clarinet and a cellphone, Richmond police said. A camera behi...

A Delhi Police Constable was injured and a Police Control Room Van (PCR) was damaged when a police team tried to rescue a man who was being thrashed by a mob for allegedly stealing a woman's cellphone in Gol Dak Khana area yesterday, police said.

A thief had a change of heart after stealing three cellphones and he returned the handsets to the owner, a young woman, via courier and also gave her a piece of advice about safe upkeep of valuable items.

The accused used his cellphone as a torch while stealing silver valuables from a jewellery store; CCTV camera captured the image that helped police officials nail him

The perils of social networking are many, some less obvious than others. Ghaziabad resident Rishi, who is also an Amity University student, met Purnima on Facebook four months ago. They became good friends and started having telephonic conversations. Finally they decided to meet at a coffee shop in the posh Noida Sector 18 market on Tuesday afterno...