When a brand new TV set straight from factory is offered for sale for half the price, naturally word spreads fast.
When a scrap-dealer and a cloth merchant, along with two partners, did so the word spread even faster. Unfortunately, it reached first the Hyderabad Task Force police than the customers and the quartet landed behind the bars.
The Commissioner’s Task Force (West) team on Saturday caught four persons who allegedly purchased over 400 Videocon TV sets stolen by a person Amer in Aurangabad and tried making money by selling them at dirt cheap rates.
Amer, suspected to be involved in other property offences, stole a container of the TV sets parked outside the Videocon factory, the Task Force DCP B. Limba Reddy said at a press conference.
He managed to bring it to Hyderabad and approached his relative Shaik Humayun, scrap-dealer. The latter met cloth merchant Syed Wasim Akram and suggested that they together can make profits by selling the TV sets.
They joined hands with two others, M.A. Ali Khan and Mohd. Idris, and struck a deal to purchase the stolen articles for Rs. 27 lakh and gave Rs. 4.5 lakh as advance to Amer. The quartet prepared fake bills in the name of some electronics showroom and started selling the TV sets when a police informant got a wind of it and alerted the TF officials.
Amer and his associate Sheru are still at large.
“Only after nabbing Amer, it will be clear as to how he managed to bring the stolen container from Aurangabad to Hyderabad and if any others helped him,” TF Inspector A.P. Anand Kumar said.
