The Kurar police have arrested two minors and an 18-year-old for robbing two shops owned by the same person in two weeks. All are school dropouts and had apparently committed the thefts for fun.

According to the Kurar police, Jaykumar Patil, 18, along with his friends, aged 15 and 16, robbed Risthe Jewellery shop in Kurar. When they found out that the jewellery they had stolen was not real gold, they wrapped it in a plastic bag threw it in a pond at Adarsh Nagar, Kurar. Fifteen days later, the three youths robbed a mobile shop owned by the same person. There they stole around 30 mobile phones.