Mumbai: A Swiss student reported that her mobile phone worth Rs 50,000 was stolen from her baggage soon after she landed at Mumbai International Airport on Wednesday.AJC Rebecca (27) filed a complaint with the Malabar Hill police the same day. The case was later transferred to the Sahar police on Saturday for further probe as the theft occurred under its jurisdiction.
Rebecca landed at Mumbai Airport on Wednesday at 4.30 am and checked her baggage in which she had seen the mobile. “We received the case three days after the incident. The team is going through the closed-circuit television (CCTV) footages inside the airport premise to identify, if any, the person who flicked the mobile from the complainant’s bag,” said a police officer of the Sahar police station.Rebecca, who purchased the mobile in 2022, said in her complaint: “I had checked the bag after landing at the airport and the mobile was in it. I noticed it missing when I reached the immigration counter. I checked with the airport officials. But failed to locate it.”After leaving the airport, Rebecca reached a hotel at Malabar Hill and informed the hotel staff, who guided her to the Malabar Hill police, where an FIR was registered.Last year, two cases of mobile theft were reported to airport police involving flyers whose mobiles were stolen from their baggage after flights to Mumbai from Bangalore and Delhi in Aug. A retired financial officer from Thane, SS Iyer, reported that an iPhone gifted by his daughter on his 65th birthday was missing from his baggage upon arrival in Mumbai. Iyer noticed the mobile missing upon arrival at the Mumbai Domestic Airport on Aug 25.A Navi Mumbai resident, SV Chingunde, had her mobile stolen from her baggage after landing at Mumbai Airport from Delhi on Aug 26. Chingunde visited Delhi for her solar business and flew back to Mumbai on Aug 26 when the mobile was stolen onboard.In June, AD Jain, vice president of a real estate company, discovered that gold ornaments worth Rs 5.5 lakh, belonging to his wife, were missing from his laptop bag upon landing at Mumbai International Airport from Delhi.In Feb, a retired mechanical engineer lost his phone valued at around Rs 75,000 after landing from Kolkata early on Saturday. Additionally, nearly Rs 1.5 lakh was swiped from three bank accounts linked to his e-wallets within an hour.None of the thefts reported by the flyers have been solved so far.
