A delivery partner working for an e-commerce company has been arrested for stealing mobile phones and accessories that were ordered online by customers and later returned, or when the customer was not at the registered address. Instead of returning these items to the company`s warehouse, the accused would remove or swap the phones and accessories, depositing only empty boxes or boxes containing old items at the warehouse. Rohit Nagpure, 26, was apprehended from Bhiwandi by the Malad police on Monday.

According to police sources, Nagpure worked as a delivery partner with an e-commerce company having an office in Old Sonal Industrial Estate, at Kanchpada in Malad West. As per the complaint filed by an associate leader of the company`s Malad branch, the company has 25 employees, including delivery boys who deliver products like cell phones, accessories, clothing, and other electronic devices ordered online. The company has its warehouse in Bhiwandi, and orders placed online were brought to the company`s two offices in Mumbai—located in Malad and Goregaon East—from where they were handed over to the delivery boys for distribution to customers.