Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai crime branch Unit 1 arrested two men accused of a house-break theft at a locked apartment in Bonkode on June 7, where they decamped with gold ornaments worth Rs 15 lakh along with Rs 40,000 cash stolen from the neighbouring apartment. The arrested duo are both habitual offenders.ACP (crime) Prerana Katte informed that the arrested accused were apprehended from the Koparkhairane area on June 23 around 6.30 pm.Thereafter, during interrogation in police custody remand, they confessed to committing as many as 11 crimes, including house burglaries, robbery by gold-chain snatching of pedestrians and bike theft , thus enabling recovery of gold ornaments and a bike collectively worth Rs 11.67 lakh. There are 51 cases of burglaries and robbery by chain-snatching against the accused Yusuf Sheikh, who was released on bail on March 20. While there are 32 house break-in cases against the accused Naushad Alam.On June 7, they targeted the flats of Pramod Wadal, 41 , and his neighbour Shankar Nagare in Swastik Yamuna Society in Koparkhairane. Katte said, “The duo accused were zeroed in from CCTV camera footage of the crime scene and in the locality. They were identified as habitual criminals by an investigating police officer who previously arrested them. The probe revealed that they were not staying at this residence address, but daily changed locations by staying in different dormitories and lodges accross MMR.”
