India, May 16 -- A Bengaluru man who broke into a mobile store stark naked, except for a mask, was arrested for stealing high-end phones worth over Rs.15,000, in what police described as a "bizarre but deliberate" theft.

According to a report by Times of India, the accused, a 27-year-old from Assam, told investigators he did not want to spoil his new clothes while squeezing through a hole in the shop's wall.

The incident occurred in the early hours of May 9 at Hanuman Telecom, located in Hongasandra, South Bengaluru. CCTV footage showed a man crawling into the shop through a two-foot-wide hole in the wall, using only the flashlight from his phone to navigate in the dark. He was seen selectively picking costlier mobile phones while ignor...