Most of you these days like to purchase your favorite phone online, isn’t it? But what if you login to a very trustworthy and reputed website for placing the order, but later realize that the phone was fake? Won’t you be shattered? Yes, sometimes, the parcels that you receive aren’t genuine. This happened in case of Flipkart.
A 21 year old named B Naveen who was working in Flipkart in the delivery department used all his smartness and earned good money! Yes, he stole 12 iPhones, the total cost of which was around 5 lakhs. Do you know what he did with them? Well, he replaced them with fake ones and sent it back to the company.
According to a report, the accused, Naveen was incharge of the Washermenpet area in Chennai used to place orders for fake addresses in the area of which he was the delivery in-charge. After receiving the package, he would return fake phones to the company, claiming that the customers were unsatisfied.
Flipkart became very suspicious after it noticed that in 1 month so many phones are being returned. The company conducted an internal inquiry after which it came to know that most of the phones that were being returned are coming from Chennai courier office. Later the company realized that the phones are fake.
Vetriselvam, the owner of the warehouse then filed a complaint with Madhavaram police station. The main suspect was Naveen who had joined just 4 months back and was assigned the North Chennai area. After investigations, it was revealed that this thing was being done since last 1 month.
Naveen has confessed the crime himself after being grilled by the police. Now, he is remanded in judicial custody.