INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NAVI MUMBAI: Borrowing from a Bollywood film, a gang of six thieves, masquerading as police officers, barged into the Airoli home of a
retired government official and walked away with valuables worth around Rs 36 lakh over a week ago.The storyline of Akshay Kumar-starrer
'Special 26' is similar - a gang of 26 pulls off robberies posing as CBI officers and executes fake a house search at a jeweller's.In the
real-life heist in Navi Mumbai, the six-member gang of conmen posed as Anti-Corruption Bureau officials and 'searched' the home of the
official who retired from the public works department
According to the criminal offence lodged by the retired official, on July 21, in the afternoon, the six men barged into the house of
Kantilal Yadav.A bearded man who led claimed they were from the Anti-Corruption Bureau and claimed that a complaint had been lodged against
Yadav and said they had come for a house search
The man seized the cellphones of Yadav and his wife and made them sit beside him till the house search was done
Yadav's wife was told to hand over the cupboard keys
Yadav insisted on seeing the bearded man's identity, but the latter refused, saying it would be shown after the search was done.As he
ordered them to sit beside him, his five accomplices rummaged through three cupboards in the three-bedroom flat and pulled out Rs 25.25
lakh, a gold chain worth Rs 3.80 lakh, a ring and a bracelet collectively valued at Rs 4.20 lakh, a diamond ring worth Rs 40,000, a
diamond-studded gold mangalsutra worth Rs 80,000 and two wrist watches worth at least Rs 10,000
The gang members stuffed the valuables in a leather bag taken from one of the cupboards and left.
