When a police team swooped down on a group of men in a park in north Delhi’s Sabzi Mandi on Monday afternoon, they did not know they were face to face with “a large family of thieves”.

How 14 thi eves from a family stole mobile phones on the Delhi Metro for 2 months

When police confirmed the identities of each of those 14 persons, it turned out they all belonged to one large extended family that lives in a village near Agra and targets Delhi Metro passengers. How 14 thi eves from a family stole mobile phones on the Delhi Metro for 2 months

The gang had already stolen nine mobile phones on Monday before they were caught in the afternoon. In five of those cases, FIRs had been registered.

“The gang that comprises only male members would steal 20-25 mobile phones from Metro passengers in a day,” Pankaj Kumar Singh, DCP (Metro), told Hindustan Times on Tuesday.

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