The Samta Nagar police have arrested two men for allegedly stealing around 153 metres of underground MTNL cable, worth approximately Rs 9 lakh, from Ashok Nagar in Kandivli East by preparing and circulating a fake MTNL work order. The arrested accused have been identified as Suresh Shinde, 38, and Swapnil Shelar, 35. They were arrested on July 22 and produced before a court the next day, which remanded them to police custody till July 29.

Cable theft

According to the complaint filed by Virendra Laltaprasad Yadav, 52, an MTNL manager at Samta Nagar, four 2000-pair copper cables measuring around 153 metres in total were laid underground between Ashok Nagar Cross Road No. 4 and Sai Arman Building in Kandivli East. The theft came to light after an alert was raised over a fibre cut at the Pune office.