Man swindles Rs 1.29 lakh-mobile phone from delivery person in Bengaluru

Police arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly tricking a delivery executive and fleeing with a high-end mobile phone worth lakhs.

The suspect Kshitij Malhotra, who hails from Punjab and is a resident of Hebbal, allegedly ordered a top-brand mobile phone valued at Rs 1.29 lakh from a Chennai-based electronics appliance retailer with multiple outlets in Bengaluru.

Malhotra’s order reached the retailer’s control room in Malleswaram. When the executive contacted him to confirm the delivery address, Malhotra claimed to be a doctor at a private hospital in JP Nagar. He requested the delivery be made there. To make his story credible, he made an advance payment of Rs 1,000 online.