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Duo rob fancy clothes at knifepoint to pay off loans
Updated On: 27 April, 2012 06:36 AM IST | | Shiva Devnath
The two accused had planned to sell the booty to bar dancers, but were exposed when cops arrested them, mistaking them as members of the gang responsible for the Malad double murders
Talk about an anticlimax. Cops may have failed to trace perpetrators of the chilling Malad double murders, but their attempts to that end helped Crime Branch officers from unit 11 arrest two men who had robbed 11 sets of salwar kameez from a showroom in Natraj Market in Malad.u00a0The two accused — identified as Jitendra Shah (37) and Nilesh Jayantilal (34) — threatened a garment owner at knifepoint on Tuesday, and made away with the dresses that were worth a total of u00a0Rs 80,000.

Vest-ed interests: Posing as customers, Shah and Jayantilal went to the Lakshmi Saree Centre, in Malad and picked out 11 salwar kameez sets.
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