A man-woman duo, suspected to be involved in several cases of mobile-snatching in north and northwest Delhi, struck again, taking away the phone of a student on the pretext of making an emergency call near the Delhi University, police said today.
Deepa was returning home from DU's Arts Faculty library when her phone was snatched away around 4.30 PM yesterday.
In a police complaint, she said she noticed a man and woman sitting in a Honda Brio. The woman asked her if she could make an urgent call from her phone, claiming that the battery of her own phone had discharged. As soon as she gave her phone to the woman, the car sped away.
Police said the duo in their early twenties were active in areas around Delhi University where young students lived and adopted similar modus operandi to snatch away phones on the pretext of making urgent phone calls.
The complaints in other such incidents reported seeing the same car, but it could not be traced as it does not bear a registration number, said a police officer.
Earlier, the duo had decamped with the phone of another student in Mukherji Nagar area last week. They were also suspected to be involved in other incidents of snatching of mobile phones, laptops and tabs by targeting young boys and girls on the pretext of asking directions or making urgent calls, he said.
A case has been registered at Maurice Nagar police station on the complaint of the student, he added.
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