Mumbai Crime: Vanrai cops on the lookout for Metro material thief

Workers at the construction site of the Dahisar East Metro station on the Western Express Highway. File Pic

An identified robber, who has made away with some Metro construction material from a container kept underneath the Goregaon bridge, has put the Vanrai cops on their toes. They are now trying to trace the culprit as the stolen material might stall the Metro construction work on the Andheri-Dahisar line.

Krishnapirmal Surli Tevar, 49, public relations officer with Jaykumar Enterprises Pvt Ltd, is in-charge of the maintenance and supervision of the Metro construction work from Andheri to Dahisar and is also responsible for taking care of the material stored in the container since the past four years. In a statement to the police, Tevar said that on May 20 he received a call from site engineer Vimal Kumar Kanojia, who said that he found the lock of the container near pillar 267 broken and some materials missing. Kanojia informed Tevar that he had last checked the container on May 16, after which he had locked it up.

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The police said that Tevar submitted a list of the missing items, which include four steel linking plates, four steel pulling plates, 15 steel MS pulling plates, four iron C angles, two H angles (black and yellow) worth Rs 1.6 lakh. "We have registered a case of robbery and are trying to track down the thief with the help of CCTV footage on the highway. We are also checking with witnesses, who might have seen some suspicious movement around the Metro site," said an officer from Vanrai police station.