Mumbai Robbery Case

A combination of alcohol and overconfidence has led to a man - who had successfully evaded the police for three decades - spilling details of a double murder and robbery and landing in the Mumbai Crime Branch's net on Friday.

A 73-year-old man wanted in a case of robbery registered in suburban Borivali 32 years ago was arrested on Saturday, city police said.

The police in Maharashtra's Raigad district have arrested two persons in connection with a case of housebreaking and theft and recovered stolen valuables worth over Rs 1 lakh, an official said.

A 32-year-old man, who was on the run since seven years after allegedly stealing gold ornaments worth Rs 68.2 lakh and Rs 3 lakh cash from a jeweler's house here, has been arrested by Mumbai Police's crime branch, an official said on Wednesday.

41-year-old man was arrested today from Ghansoli in Navi Mumbai for his alleged involvement in a string of theft cases, police said. 3 jewelers have also been arrested for buying stolen jewellery from the accused, they said.

A 22-year-old man, wanted in connection with the Rs 43 lakh robbery in Gujarat's Rajkot, was arrested on Wednesday by the Anti Extortion Cell (AEC) of Mumbai Police from suburban Govandi, police said.

A Mumbai man's plot to kill his wife could have come straight out of a Hollywood thriller. But while the plan worked, unlike the silver screen, he got caught.

In a bizarre case of fraud, the police are on a manhunt for a conman with powers of hypnosis after a bank manager claimed he was bewitched into parting with Rs 93,000. Although he handed over the money to the man himself, he told the police that he had no conrol over his actions and remembers little of what had happened.

A man facing trial for over nine years for trying to rob a person of his bicycle has been held guilty of the crime but was let off with a sentence of over five months in jail, which he had already undergone during the trial.

In most cases of thefts and robberies, the needle of suspicion falls on domestic helps working in the house. But the Somani family was in for a rude shock, when they realised that the trusted tuition teacher of their children was the culprit who decamped with Rs 20 lakh worth of jewellery from their Kandivli residence. The accused Hetal Tanna (36) ...

Three persons charged with looting a bank and later allegedly transferring a part of the booty for the hijack of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in December 1999 were acquitted by a local court for lack of evidence and the prosecution's failure to prove the case against them.The sessions court acquitted Abdul Latif and Bhopal man Yusuf Khan, who had ...

The Shivaji Park police have launched a manhunt to nab four unidentified people who robbed employees of a money-carrier company while they were carrying cash collected from BEST depots at Worli and Dadar on Thursday."Someone from the company could be involved as the accused were aware that the cash would be carried by the victims on bike and knew t...

While the Mumbai police was able to nab the four foreigners in the Rs 6.6 crore diamond heist that took place on August 23 at the India International Jewellery Show in Goregaon, within hours of the crime. Completing investigation formalities though, is a matter lost in translation.The foreigners speak Spanish, and not a word of English, making it d...

A combination of alcohol and overconfidence has led to a man - who had successfully evaded the police for three decades - spilling details of a double murder and robbery and landing in the Mumbai Crime Branch's net on Friday.

A 73-year-old man wanted in a case of robbery registered in suburban Borivali 32 years ago was arrested on Saturday, city police said.

The police in Maharashtra's Raigad district have arrested two persons in connection with a case of housebreaking and theft and recovered stolen valuables worth over Rs 1 lakh, an official said.

A 32-year-old man, who was on the run since seven years after allegedly stealing gold ornaments worth Rs 68.2 lakh and Rs 3 lakh cash from a jeweler's house here, has been arrested by Mumbai Police's crime branch, an official said on Wednesday.

41-year-old man was arrested today from Ghansoli in Navi Mumbai for his alleged involvement in a string of theft cases, police said. 3 jewelers have also been arrested for buying stolen jewellery from the accused, they said.

A 22-year-old man, wanted in connection with the Rs 43 lakh robbery in Gujarat's Rajkot, was arrested on Wednesday by the Anti Extortion Cell (AEC) of Mumbai Police from suburban Govandi, police said.

A Mumbai man's plot to kill his wife could have come straight out of a Hollywood thriller. But while the plan worked, unlike the silver screen, he got caught.

In a bizarre case of fraud, the police are on a manhunt for a conman with powers of hypnosis after a bank manager claimed he was bewitched into parting with Rs 93,000. Although he handed over the money to the man himself, he told the police that he had no conrol over his actions and remembers little of what had happened.

A man facing trial for over nine years for trying to rob a person of his bicycle has been held guilty of the crime but was let off with a sentence of over five months in jail, which he had already undergone during the trial.

In most cases of thefts and robberies, the needle of suspicion falls on domestic helps working in the house. But the Somani family was in for a rude shock, when they realised that the trusted tuition teacher of their children was the culprit who decamped with Rs 20 lakh worth of jewellery from their Kandivli residence. The accused Hetal Tanna (36) ...

Three persons charged with looting a bank and later allegedly transferring a part of the booty for the hijack of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in December 1999 were acquitted by a local court for lack of evidence and the prosecution's failure to prove the case against them.The sessions court acquitted Abdul Latif and Bhopal man Yusuf Khan, who had ...

The Shivaji Park police have launched a manhunt to nab four unidentified people who robbed employees of a money-carrier company while they were carrying cash collected from BEST depots at Worli and Dadar on Thursday."Someone from the company could be involved as the accused were aware that the cash would be carried by the victims on bike and knew t...

While the Mumbai police was able to nab the four foreigners in the Rs 6.6 crore diamond heist that took place on August 23 at the India International Jewellery Show in Goregaon, within hours of the crime. Completing investigation formalities though, is a matter lost in translation.The foreigners speak Spanish, and not a word of English, making it d...