Burglars in Thane rented a store adjoining to a jewelry store to steal gold from it. They drilled a gap within the frequent wall and decamped with jewelry value crores of rupees.
The entire jewelry stolen was round Rs 1.37 crores. (Photograph: India As we speak)
The Navi Mumbai police have nabbed two individuals concerned within the theft of gold jewelry value crores from a jewelry store at Thane. The theft was carried by drilling a gap within the frequent wall from one other store run by them which that they had employed particularly to execute the theft. The accused who’re mentioned to be natives of Jharkhand used this distinctive modus operandi and rented a store situated simply apart from a jewelry store at Vartak Nagar in Thane.
In line with ACP Vinayak Huge from Vashi division of Navi Mumbai police, the gang of 5 accused initially zeroed in on the Varimata Jewellers store on Pokhran street at Vartak Nagar in Thane. As soon as they discovered that the store situated simply beside the jewellers store was vacated, they contacted the proprietor and rented it. After just a few days of recce, the accused gathered all wanted supplies like fuel cutter and different instruments to drill a gap which might assist them sneak contained in the store as soon as it was shut for the day. The accused inside every week had identified that the shopkeeper saved the jewelry contained in the store and likewise the timings when the store was shut for the day and days when it could not open within the week.
The store was rented by Rahul Abdul Majid Shaikh who additionally put up a signboard ‘Abdul fruits’ on the store. The theft was executed on night time of January 17 by Rahul and his 4 associates who drilled a gap into the frequent wall between their store and the jewelry store. As soon as the outlet was drilled, they entered the store and emptied all of the jewelry within the showcase and different safes and cupboards of the store. The entire jewelry that Rahul and his accomplices stole was mentioned to be round Rs1.37 crores.
ACP Huge and his workforce from APMC police station acquired data relating to Rahul and one in every of his accomplices Saheb Akbar Shaikh that they’re hiding in Vashi. Primarily based on the data offered by the informant, Rahul and Saheb had been taken into custody with a number of the stolen jewelry. The accused duo confessed to the crime and so they have been handed over to the Vartak Nagar police in Thane. The Vartak Nagar police are additional attempting to hint the opposite absconding accomplices of the arrested accused duo.
