mumbai a motherdaughter duo was arrested by the borivli police on wednesday for stealing expensive cellphones and selling them online on an ecommerce portal both the accused have been remanded in judicial custody by a magistrate court the 45yearold woman and her 25yearold daughter lived on rent in a flat in malad west the identities of the accused have been kept confidential by the police the theft occurred at a borivlibased cellphone store on february 28 the mother visited the shop and asked to see expensive cellphones of various brands while the salesmen werent paying attention she stole a handset on april 1 while evaluating stock the store owner discovered that an iphone6 was missing he went through the cctv footage of the store and registered a complaint with the borivli police after tracking down the imei number on the handset the cops reached a house in malwani the stolen handset was being used by a man living there he told the cops that he had purchased the iphone6 on a popular online classifieds portal the cops asked him for the sellers phone number but it turned out that the number was wrong the accused had taken a lot of precautions to mask her identity but we tracked down her phone location and took her into custody she admitted to putting up the phone for sale online on the same day that it was stolen an official said her daughter had posted an advertisement on the website for selling the phone the duo was aware that the buyer would ask them for documents on april 1 the younger accused visited a mobile phone shop at four bungalows in andheri west she purchased two cellphone covers and a scratch guard from the shop and demanded a bill later she made alterations in the bill and added the imei number of the stolen handset to it there is a similar complaint against the older woman at the juhu police station a police official revealed tnn published on apr 17 2015 at 0809 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app mobile theft borivli online sales homenewsmumbai duo arrested for stealing expensive cellphones selling them online