Kamal Kishore and his associates, Yaqub Ali, Mukesh, Mohd. Saleem and Mohd. Sartaj had stolen 28 cartons containing 1,680 mobile phones on board the Nizamuddin-Bhopal express train on the intervening night of Jan 2 and 3.
"His associates boarded the train from Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station and met Kishore at the toll gate in Ballabgarh, Haryana after committing the crime," said police.
Following a tip-off, Kishore was arrested Thursday near a wine shop in Kalyanpuri in east Delhi. During his interrogation, it was revealed that he was on interim bail in a criminal case for four weeks since Dec 25.
Mukesh was arrested from Ashram in south Delhi by the Railway Police Force Jan 3 and 15 cartons of phones were recovered from him.
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