The Boisar unit of the Crime Branch has arrested a 20-year-old youth who robbed bungalows in Dahanu and even stabbed people who resisted. After looting a house in Vangaon, the accused, Gaurav Bhupendra Dalvi, had also drawn the Pakistan flag with lipstick on a glass door.

As robberies were increasing in the past month in Vangaon, senior police officers in Palghar district roped in the local Crime Branch (LCB) to conduct parallel investigations.