For weeks, baffled residents of Relief Road, Santacruz West, have been keeping vigil, their mobile phone cameras on, to catch the culprit responsible for spoiling their clean locality with heaps of garbage, which would keep materialising despite clean-ups. Now, a resident has finally solved the mystery.

Caught on camera
In the early hours of Wednesday, Dr Salim Deshmukh, dentist and personal health trainer, spotted a dumper at the far end towards SNDT College, emptying a truckload of rubbish on the footpath. "I immediately stopped my vehicle and clicked photos. A middle-aged man and woman manually emptied the truck, while three men stood guard," he said.