Four held for stealing ship engine parts worth Rs 93 lakh in Navi Mumbai

The Navi Mumbai police have arrested four persons for allegedly stealing cargo ship engine parts valued at over Rs 93 lakh, an official said on Saturday, reported news agency PTI.

Components worth about Rs 74 lakh have been recovered from the accused, the Turbhe police said in a release.

One Vasudev Dattatreya Prabhu had approached the police on May 27, complaining that some persons had broken into his company`s warehouse on May 25 and stolen parts of a turbo engine of a cargo ship, reported PTI.

After analysing technical aspects and footage from about 40 CCTV cameras in the surrounding area, the police took four persons into custody from Indiranagar, Turbhe MIDC, on May 28 and recovered a chunk of the stolen parts, the release added.

MCOCA invoked against four over assault, Rs 12.8 lakh robbery at energy plant in Beed

Four members of a gang that allegedly assaulted two watchmen of a private firm in Maharashtra`s Beed district and robbed property worth Rs 12.87 lakh have been booked under the stringent MCOCA, police have said, reported PTI.

Confessions made to the police under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) are admissible in court, and the statute also makes it difficult to secure bail.

The assault and robbery had taken place on April 7 at a unit of Avaada Group in Vida village in Kej tehsil, some 390 kilometres from Mumbai, a police official said on Friday.

“A group of 14 persons had assaulted watchmen Akash Jadhav (26) and Abhijeet Dunghav. The two were tied with bedsheets and then thrashed with sticks on the hands and legs. The accused then stole items worth Rs 12.87 lakh from the site. A probe led to the arrest of Baban Sardar Shinde (40), Dhanaji Kale (23), Mohan Hari Kale (30), and Lalasaheb Pawar (26), all residents of Beed and Dharashiv,” he said, reported PTI.

Beed police found the gang was involved in at least 11 cases of robbery, theft and serious body offences, the official said.

“Accordingly, Superintendent of Beed Navneet Kanwat sent a proposal for imposing MCOCA sections in the case against the accused. The proposal was cleared by Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Range Inspector General Virendra Mishra on Friday,” he said, reported PTI.

Six persons are wanted in the case, the official added.

Last year, the region was under the spotlight over the murder of Massajog village sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh after he tried to stop an alleged extortion bid at a windmill project.

(With inputs from PTI)

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