Mumbai police have arrested two men in connection with a highway theft of aluminium alloy ingots from a moving goods truck on the Mumbai–Pune Express Highway. The theft occurred on December 9 near the Madap Tunnel stretch between Madap Tunnel and Kumbhivali Bridge.
The accused, identified as Arjun Shankar Kale (32) and Sohail Rahim Khan (40), allegedly used a moving-vehicle theft technique. One of them climbed onto the moving truck to throw 45 aluminium alloy ingots—worth Rs 32,400—onto the highway, while an accomplice in a following black-and-yellow Eco car (MH-01-AT-2440) collected them.
Police investigations, aided by CCTV footage and technical inputs, led PSI Jagtap and the Crime Detection Team to trace the suspects to Wadibunder–Dongri, where they were apprehended on December 11 along with the Eco car used in the crime.
During interrogation, Kale and Khan confessed and named two additional accomplices—Santosh Ratan Kale and an associate known as Ummi, both residents of Wadibunder. While initially evasive about the stolen ingots’ whereabouts, police later recovered the aluminium from a scrap dealer in Mazgaon.
Authorities confirmed that the moving-vehicle theft technique used by the gang posed a high risk, but meticulous CCTV analysis was instrumental in cracking the case.
