M S Dhoni and his Jharkhand cricket team had to evacuate the Welcom hotel on Friday owing to a fire which broke out in a shopping mall located near their hotel.
After receiving green signal from the hotel staff, the cricketers returned to the hotel when the former Captain found three of his mobile phones to be missing. Following this, an FIR was lodged on March 17.
Later, all the three phones were traced after one fire fighter from Delhi Fire Services (DFS), returned them after the cops contacted him. Senior officials from DFS claimed that the fire fighter took the phones for safe keeping and was planning on returning it.
So far, the cops have remained tight-lipped about the case. They also stated that the fire fighter made an error of judgment and did not know about the owner of the phones.
After Dhoni returned to their hotel, his assistant, Vikas Hasija and Sandeep Phogat, the travel manager, had inspected room 937 in which Dhoni was put up. Both of them found that the room was swept clean and all of Dhoni's belongings were in place except three of his mobile phones which were missing.
"My iPhone 6 plus, Reliance LYF and a brand new Lava phone was missing. My assistant had also informed Akash Hans, a hotel staff. Akash had also looked into the CCTV footage of the hotel and found nothing,' said the former captain in his complaint.
The police registered an FIR under section 380 IPC at Dwarka South police station. "We had approached the hotel staff and questioned some of them. Later, we started to look into the CCTV footages. Then we found that the fire fighter had inadvertently taken the phone and retuned the phones claiming that he did not know about the owner. It was an error of judgement on his part," said Deputy Commissioner of Police, Surender Kumar.
However, the Delhi Police spokesperson, Depender Pathak said, "The police has not given a clean chit to the fire fighter and will be verifying his claims before taking any action."