Posing as Customs officers, four men barged into a house in Santacruz West and took away expensive electronic gadgets and papers from a Thai citizen in the guise of a raid. While mastermind, Mihir Satish Chouhan, is a pilot and stayed away from the scene, the others are bouncers at popular clubs. All have been arrested.

The police said Chouhan, 26, used to work in Thailand and lost his job during the COVID pandemic. Apparently, he had been cheated in this fashion in that country and wanted to use it on a Thai national.