The V P road police have arrested two men on Saturday for breaking into an imitation jewellery shop at Bhoiwada on July 10. The accused are Salman Shaikh (21) and Miraj Ali (22) both Nagpada residents. On July 9, the shop owner, Hitesh Jain, had kept Rs 6.5 lakh in a wooden drawer in his office.

The owner of a neighbouring jewellery shop, Sandip Bhai, had sent R15 lakh with two of his workers to Jain for safekeeping. Jain kept this money in the same wooden drawer, and left at 9 pm after shutting the shop.
Early morning next day, a paanwala, who has his outlet near Jain’s shop called him up and said that his shop’s shutter had been broken open.