The Bangur Nagar police have arrested a business process outsourcing (BPO) office employee and his friend for allegedly stealing phones and cash from the locker area of his workplace in Malad West’s Mindspace. The former did not commit the theft himself but allegedly handed over his access card to the latter, an alleged habitual offender.

According to police sources, the employee, Aditya Das, 23, a Mira Road resident, had been working with the BPO for around one-and-a-half years, and several theft cases had been registered against his friend, Pratik Sakpal, 21, at Dadar, Nehru Nagar, Mira Road, and Panvel.