Mumbai police arrested three people who posed as beggars and stole from multiple houses.
Mumbai police arrested three siblings who posed as beggars and stole from multiple houses in the city. The trio would enter people’s homes and steal valuable items.
The MRA Marg police station has arrested the siblings for stealing from multiple homes in Mumbai, where they would steal valuable items from various households.
The siblings have been identified as Satyababa Kale (40), Nisha (22), the mastermind, and Pooja Kale (25). All of them have been remanded to judicial custody and are residents of Ahmednagar in Maharashtra who came to Mumbai with the purpose of stealing.
Police said that the trio also accompanied a child with them to make them look like genuine beggars. Police said all the accused were unemployed and used to occasionally work in sugarcane fields as farm labourers.
The incident came to light this month when the trio entered the complainant’s house in Manohardas Street in Mumbai’s Fort area and decamped with 13 tolas of gold.
The stolen items were later recuperated by the police.
Acting on the complaint, Senior inspector Rajesh Pawar created a team comprising API Pravin Shinde, PSI Lamture, ASI Ahire, HCs Panchal, and Chavan, Vange, Pawar, Gawde, Lokekar, Sawant, More, and Hakke, to make the accused arrest.
The siblings are thieves from Ahmednagar in Maharashtra, who traveled to Mumbai with the plan of robbery.
According to the Mumbai Police, the trio also accompanied a child in order to appear as genuine beggars. The police reported that all of the accused had been unemployed and occasionally worked as farm laborers in the sugarcane fields in Maharashtra.
The incident was made public earlier this month after the siblings broke into the complainant’s house on Mumbai’s Manohardas Street in the Fort area in the early hours and went away with 13 grams of gold. The police later recovered the stolen items.
Rajesh Pawar, the senior inspector, reportedly assembled a team of police officers in response to the complaint and made their arrest.
The Mumbai police examined more than 50 CCTV recordings between CSMT and Powai. Speaking over the case, a police official stated, “They were in Mumbai only to commit theft and steal and would start before or by 4.30 am.
They had conducted a reconnaissance of the house they identified and committed the crime accordingly.
“They were aware of the specific details of these houses and knew that people were generally asleep in the wee hours.”
They stole and decamped with valuables, gold jewelry, whatever else they could get… like phones or gadgets, “Mumbai police stated. “Our team set a trap outside their hut in Powai for four days, but we eventually arrested them from Badlapur.”
The police also imprisoned a jeweler, Chirag Jain, who was on bail for purchasing the stolen gold. When the accused siblings came to sell gold, the jeweler turned off his CCTV camera for a few minutes.
The police said that several similar robbery complaints have been recently filed at the police stations of Bhoiwada, VP Road, and Vikhroli, which shall now be thoroughly investigated.
