iPhone Robbery: 1,500 iPhones Worth Rs 11 Crore Looted From Container Truck In MP’s Sagar After Driver Drugged, Gagged

As many as 1,500 iPhones worth Rs 11 crore were reportedly robbed from a container truck in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh. The iPhone robbery was carried out on August 15.

iPhone Robbery: Around 1,500 iPhones worth a whopping Rs 11 crore were looted from a container truck in Sagar district in Madhya Pradesh after the driver of the vehicle was allegedly “drugged and gagged”, according to the transporter even as the Madhya Pradesh Police took disciplinary action against three of its personnel for dereliction of duty.

According to the police, the transporters have claimed that the truck was looted on August 15, after the robbers drugged the driver and gagged him.

“We are verifying the claim of the transporters of some 1500 iPhones worth Rs 500 crore getting looted. Apple, which manufactures these phones, has not contacted police so far,” a senior official said.

“I am at the spot, some 3 kilometres from the district headquarters, and videography of the truck is in progress,” Sagar Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjay Uikey told news agency PTI.

The officer informed that the container truck was on its way from Gurugram in Haryana to Chennai, adding that the loot began in the adjoining Narsinghpur district.

“A case will be registered shortly after the initial probe is complete,” Uikey said.

Meanwhile, following the robbery, one police officer was suspended and two were “line attached” (taken off field duty) for alleged dereliction of duty, officials said.

Sagar Zone Inspector- General of Police Pramod Verma “line attached” Bandari police station in-charge inspector Bhagchand Uikey and assistant sub-inspector Rajendra Pandey and suspended head constable Rajesh Pandey on Friday for showing negligence in the case, they said.

The personnel against whom action was taken had not registered a complaint when the driver of the truck approached them, the additional SP added.

(With PTI inputs)