Thane crime: Cops from Dombivli pose as brick kiln workers to nab suspect in Uttar Pradesh

Thane crime: A team of police officials from Dombivli in Thane posed as brick kiln workers to nab a theft case accused from Uttar Pradesh, the police said

Thane crime: A team of police officials from Dombivli in Maharashtra's Thane district reportedly posed as brick kiln workers to nab a wanted accused from Uttar Pradesh, the police said on Tuesday, reported the PTI.

According to the news agency, the suspect was had fled to Uttar Pradesh and had been wanted in connection with a theft case, the police said.

The team apprehended the accused Rajesh Arvind Rajbhar from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh on October 30, said Sunil Kurade, assistant commissioner of police Dombivli, Kalyan division, as per the PTI.

The accused had broken into a house in Dombivili town and stolen gold and silver jewellery worth Rs 21.26 lakh in August, he said.

During the probe, the police received a tip-off that the accused had fled to Lalganj village in Azamgad and was hiding there, the official said.

A police team of three policemen went to the village and stayed there for 10 days, posing as brick kiln workers to apprehend him, he said.

The accused was involved in 22 cases of thefts in the Thane police commissionerate, senior inspector Ashok Honmane of the Manpada police station said, the PTI reported on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, in an another incident, the Navi Mumbai police have arrested a 35-year-old chartered accountant from Pune for allegedly cheating people of lakhs through "task" fraud, an official said on Tuesday, according to the PTI.

The police apprehended Akash Umesh Pandey, a chartered accountant with a private firm, from Lohegaon in Pune on November 4 in a case registered against him under section 420 (cheating) and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act, senior inspector Gajanan Kadam of the cyber police station said, the PTI reported.

The police had received a complaint from a Navi Mumbai resident who allegedly lost Rs 17 lakh after performing various tasks online as instructed by the accused between August 9 and 14, he said.

The police traced the bank account in which the money was deposited and the phone number connected to the transactions. The police froze the bank accounts and zeroed in on the accused in Pune, the official said.

(with PTI inputs)

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