26 June,2026 11:32 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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Kalyan police in the district have arrested a man from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh who was wanted in at least 33 burglary cases in and around Thane, an official said on Friday, reported PTI.
Rajesh Arvind Rajbhar (30) allegedly targeted locked houses across Thane, Palghar and Raigad districts, reported PTI.
Stolen gold, silver jewelry and cash collectively valued at Rs 38.5 lakh was also seized from his possession.
Rajbhar, a known history-sheeter was recently spotted in CCTV footage from a burgled house under the jurisdiction of Vishnunagar police station, following which the Kalyan crime branch launched a hunt for him, reported PTI.
Acting on a tip-off, he was arrested from Azamgarh, his native place.
Further probe is on, the official said.
In another case, A man wielding a knife barged into the backseat of a woman's car and tried to rob her by threatening her and her children in Matunga area, police said on Thursday, reported PTI.
Ali Basharat Ali Sayyad (40), the accused, was apprehended by passers-by when he was trying to flee, reported PTI.
The incident took place near a school on Wednesday evening when the woman was picking up her children from a football class, a police official said.
As she sat in the driver's seat, the accused suddenly opened the rear door and sat alongside her two children, and demanded money and gold jewelry while threatening them with a knife, he said.
The woman, however, raised the alarm despite the accused warning her not to. The accused, probably unnerved by her screaming, got out and started fleeing, but some passersby chased him and caught hold of him, the official said.
Police recovered two knives from Sayyad's possession.
He was booked under BNS sections 126(2) (wrongful restraint) and 309(2) and 309(5) (robbery or attempt to commit robbery).
Meanwhile, police have arrested three persons from Pune district for allegedly committing a robbery and a house break-in in Beed, and recovered stolen valuables, cash and mobile phones, officials said on Thursday, reported PTI.
According to an official release, a man on a motorcycle was allegedly attacked with a sickle and robbed by three men near Rohatwadi in Patoda tehsil on June 22. He is currently undergoing treatment in a hospital.
During the course of the investigation, police also found that the same accused had committed a house break-in and theft at the residence and tea stall of a woman on the Patoda-Beed road.
Acting on inputs, the local crime branch arrested the accused, identified as Mauli Namdev Pawar (26), Mayur, alias Omkar Nitin Bhosale (22), and Aditya, alias Bala Siddhu Pawar (19), from Indapur in Pune district, the release said, reported PTI.
Police said they have recovered mobile phones, cash, a television set, gold ornaments and other stolen property, along with the sickle allegedly used in the first attack.
(With inputs from PTI)
