Investigations have revealed that he was allegedly involved in at least 5 cases of mobile phone snatching under the jurisdiction of Byculla police station alone, further investigations are going on to identify if he had been involved in other similar cases in different parts of the city, the police said
The said family believed that the theft is done by a ‘djinn’, a certain type of spirit in Islam, only to eventually lose a total of Rs. 40.98 lakhs for them to actually realize this is a case of human-performed theft.
According to a police official, on September 26, a 40-year-old businessman from Mazgaon visited the police station and informed the police that gold worth over Rs 4.05 lakh and cash worth Rs 10 lakh were stolen from his house in Mazgaon area. The police registered a case of theft and began to investigate the matter