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Mobile wallpaper helps cops nab thief
Updated On: 18 February, 2013 06:58 AM IST | | Saurabh Vaktania
The accused used his cellphone as a torch while stealing silver valuables from a jewellery store; CCTV camera captured the image that helped police officials nail him
A wallpaper on the mobile phone of a thief proved to be his undoing. Based on the CCTV footage that managed to capture the wallpaper on his cellphone, officials of the Malad police station arrested Salman Sheikh, a labourer at an under-construction building in Malad, for stealing silver valuables from a jewellery store On the morning of February 13, when Pankaj Jain, the owner of M Shankarlal and Company at Zakaria Road, Malad (West) entered the store, he found several silver items missing.
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Using the wallpaper on the footage, Salman Sheikh was arrested by the cops and remanded to police custody till February 20

