TWO HACK A/C OF MATUNGA BIZMAN, STEAL ₹1.66 CR, HELD

MUMBAI: The cyber crime cell recently arrested two Kolkata residents for siphoning off ₹1.66 crore from the bank account of a Matunga-based businessman. While Chunchun Pathak, 49, was arrested from Mumbai, his accomplice Sagar Das, 34, was held in Kolkata. Das was released on interim bail by a Kolkata court on the condition that he would produce himself in the Mumbai court.

Police said Pathak and Das played key roles in getting the bank details of Vimal Hirji Shah’s company and transferring the money from his account into various other accounts across Delhi, Kolkata and Madhya Pradesh. Shah runs a business of exporting bed sheets. To ensure the complainant did not receive SMS alerts about the transactions, they deactivated his number by calling the service provider.

On December 27, 2018, Shah received missed calls from some unknown numbers. The next morning, he learnt his number has been deactivated. He visited the nearest gallery and reactivated it. Later in the day, his employee informed him about suspicious monetary transactions that left his account empty. An inquiry at the bank revealed the money had been transferred to various accounts, following which he filed a complaint with the cybercrime cell. During the probe, police secured details of the accounts into which the money was transferred and traced the accused. MUMBAI: Sculptor G Reghu doesn’t like to gives titles to his sculpted stoneware creations.

“I like to leave interpretation to the audience,” he says.

“When I start working with the clay, it speaks to me. It feels like I play with it and it takes a form.”

About 100 of these forms are currently on display at the Jehangir Art Gallery, in an exhibition

COPS ARE PROBING HOW THE TWO ACCUSED MANAGED TO SECURE THE BUSINESSMAN’S DETAILS AND ALSO IF IT WAS AN INSIDE JOB

titled ‘Stoneware’s rural rhythms’. Some are clearly tribal figures, many are women.

“In this country, we still fail to give women due credit. That’s why, my sculptures, portraying rural and tribal India, give

woman a prominent place,” Reghu says.

This is, incidentally, his first show in Mumbai in 20 years.

If you want to try and guess at what the artist was thinking, as you make your way through the