This may sound like one of the incidents in the hinterland where people are terrorised by dacoits, who run amok, unafraid of the law enforcers. But it was the country's financial capital, your own Maximum City that had been hit by a series of highway robberies until the police managed to trap the culprits and put them behind the bars.

A gang of four, notorious for targeting commuters on the highway across the city, looted a 37-year-old woman on the Vakola bridge last week, prompting the police to launch a massive manhunt to nab the men, two of whom are named in as many as 40 such cases.