The Navi Mumbai police on Friday detained two persons from Chembur in connection with last weekend’s theft at the Juinagar branch of Bank of Baroda.
The Zone I police officers initially detained four people based on information from Crime Branch officers investigating in Malegaon. After interrogating them, the police let off two of them, who were not involved in the case.
The two suspects in the case are being questioned by the Sanpada police for information about the stolen goods and the remaining accused.
Clue from CDR
Around 10 teams from the Crime Branch and Zone I police are investigating the case. A Crime Branch team looking into the call detail record (CDR) of Gena Bachan Prasad alias Gena Ram Chaudhary found that his number belonged to a person from Dhule. That person claimed to have lost the phone some months ago.
From Dhule, officers found a link to Malegaon, where they got a tip-off about the suspects being in Mumbai.
Meanwhile, the Zone I police got a lead about the car which the accused had been using during their stay in Navi Mumbai.
“The accused used to park the car a little distance from the bank, opposite a hotel. We learnt the registration number of the car and traced the owner. Then we found to whom he had sold the car,” a police officer from Zone I said.
The two pieces of information led the team to the two suspects.
Sensitive information
Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale refused to divulge any information about the suspects as it might hamper their investigations.
Thirty of the 225 lockers in the bank were found broken into last weekend. The burglars had dug a 40-foot tunnel from a shop in Bhakti Residency, the building that also houses the bank. The articles missing from 28 lockers have been valued at ₹2.85 crore.
