Two arrested for stealing cables

The Nehru Nagar police on Wednesday arrested two youths from a slum in Kurla for stealing cables worth Rs 72,000 from a construction site. The police have registered a case of robbery against the duo.

“On Tuesday night,the accused Nitin Dhumal (21) and Sohail Kaneriwala (19),both residents of Chembur were passing the site where the construction of a telephone tower was in progress at Vatsalabai Naik Nagar in Kurla. They saw several cables lying unattended and taking advantage of the situation ran away with cables worth Rs 72,000. Some slum dwellers spotted them and based on a tip-off we arrested them on Wednesday,” said Senior police inspector P B Kale of the Nehru Nagar police station.

“The boys come from a lower middle-class background. Dhumal’s father is reportedly suffering from a kidney failure and his mother is a housemaid. Kaneriwala’s mother is bed-ridden. It seems it was the boys’ first attempt at crime and they claim that they desperately needed money for household expenses and medicines and hence were driven to commit the robbery,” said Kale.