In the past few days, cases of mobile phone thefts have increased a lot in Delhi University’s North Campus. Students are having a tough time, as everything is having unexpectedly.
A sophisticated lady comes to the campus in her white Brio and asks students to give their phones for an emergency call. She says that the phone’s battery is dead, but the call is unavoidable. In a bid to help her, students immediately handover their phones, without thinking twice.
As soon as she gets the phone, she speeds her car and drives away with it. This is the modus-operandi since many days now. Once again on Thursday, the thief repeated the same outside SRCC and drove off with the phone, after borrowing it from a student for an emergency call. She is not alone, but there is a man along with her, who drives the car.
Seeing all this, the Delhi Police arranged an awareness drive for warning the students. Yes, they imitated the acts of the thieves by wearing some plain clothes, borrowing phones from students, and then driving away.
Virender Singh, the Head constable and Gurdeep Kaur, the sub-inspector came to the campus in plain clothes. After parking their car near Vishwavidyalaya Metro station, they borrowed phones from 2 students, stating it was an emergency. After taking the phones, the police officials fled from there.
Out of them, there was a young girl, Divya Kumari who was feeling helpless after they took away her phone, but luckily, head constable Naresh Kumar came to help her. Naresh Kumar chased the car, but when Gurdeep and Virender came out, Divya asked them the reason for doing so.
Gurdeep explained Divya
“I am from the Maurice Nagar Police Station and this is part of the awareness drive we are conducting. You have to be more careful while helping someone. Aapne socha nahi ki hum car mein baithe hain, aur humare paas charger nahin hai? Maine aapko bola mere phone ki battery khatam ho gayi hai, toh aapne mujhe phone dikhane ko bhi nahi kaha (Didn’t you think we should have a charger since we were sitting in a car? I told you my battery was dead and you did not even ask to see my phone to check if the battery was really dead,”
Not only this, Aarti Sharma, the SHO of Maurice Nagar Police station said that students should be very careful while travelling in rickshaws and plugging in those headphones. It makes it very easy for thieves to the snatch the phones.
She further added
“You should be more careful with your belongings whenever you are walking on the road or sitting in a rickshaw. You should keep your phone in the bag and hold the bag tightly so that nobody can snatch it.” She also told us that the phone thieves look young and speak fluent English, which is why the students seem to easily trust them.”
This is indeed a perfect awareness drive, which will surely benefit students a lot, don’t you think so? Do share your views in our comments section below.
