A 22-year-old youth was caught when his attempt to steal and scamper failed after the residents of the flat he had entered from the bathroom window heard him and raised an alarm. Identified as Ravi Ramjitsingh Pardeshi, a resident of Anand Park in Vadgaon Sheri area, the accused broke into the house of Papiha Sakit Gaurav, in Bramha Sancity building at Vadgaon Sheri, on Saturday evening.

According to the police, the flat is above two parking floors and the bathroom window faces the backside of the building. Taking advantage of it, Pardeshi, who washes cars in the society, climbed up through the drainpipe and entered the bathroom.