Man Receives Soap Bars in iPhone Box in Thane Police Complaint Registered All Details

Even today, many people are afraid to shop from e-commerce platforms, the main reason for which is the delivery of the wrong product. For example, in the last several years, many such cases have come to the headlines, where a person orders a smartphone and in return he gets a brick or soap or some other thing inside the box of the same smartphone. The latest case is also similar, where a person had ordered a mobile phone from an e-commerce portal, but when he opened the box, he was shocked.

of NDTV AccordingA man in Maharashtra’s Thane district ordered a smartphone worth Rs 46,000 from an online purchase but the parcel he received allegedly contained three soap bars, police said on Monday.

According to the report, an official from Bhayander police station said that it appears that the victim’s parcel was tampered with during delivery. He also informed that the victim had ordered an iPhone model worth Rs 46,000 from the online shopping platform.

Police said, citing the complaint lodged by the victim, that when he opened the package, he found three dishwashing soaps inside the mobile phone packet. Police on Saturday registered a case against the unidentified offender under Section 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and investigation has begun.

This is not the first incident where soap has been found inside someone’s smartphone box. last year A person had bought iPhone 12 during the Big Billion Days sale. He had opted for the e-commerce platform’s open box scheme for this delivery, in which at the time of delivery, the package is first opened and shown to the customer and then the customer is asked for the OTP received on his phone to register the successful delivery. As soon as the delivery person opened the upper packaging, two soaps came out instead of iPhone 12.