Vashi police, investigating a dacoity in which an angadia was abducted and a sum of Rs 1 crore taken from him, have said that they have arrested the mastermind behind this robbery, Fayyad Mohammad Altaf, 43. Altaf, who was nabbed from Karnataka, they said, had been planning the crime for the last two months.

Two days ago, three policemen were arrested with regard to the crime that was conducted last week. Mohammad Kajia, an angadia (unofficial courier), was travelling in a luxury bus from Mumbai to Mangalore on Saturday, and was abducted by a gang that included two sub-inspectors and a constable, and looted of the cash he was carrying. These three policemen, arrested by the Vashi police, were attached to the Tromboy police station.