Online buyers beware: Flipkart in trouble – is it handling stolen goods?

Flipkart is an e-commerce biggie and the Delhi Police have sent them a notice after six persons were arrested and stolen goods in the form of high-end mobile phones worth around Rs 1 crore were recovered. Many of these had allegedly been sold through the e-tailer's website.
This has been reported in zeemnews.india.com dated 5 October 2015.

As revealed by the police a Delhi-based logistics company had reported in July that 600 high-end mobile phones were missing from a shipment that had been sourced by it from Hong Kong. When it failed to trace the missing phones, they reported the matter to the police.
Subsequently, six persons have been arrested and 209 phones have been recovered.
The buyers of these phones hailed from different places like Mysore, Mangaluru, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Mahasamund, Hyderabad, Jalandhar, Delhi and Chandigarh. The common link was that they had purchased the phones from Flipkart.Com. And, they produced invoices of their purchase.
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