GOLD HEIST Five men held under MCOCA

With the arrest of two more people, sleuths of the Mira Bhayanar-Vasai Virar (MBVV) police commissionerate have managed to apprehend all five members of the gang for their involvement in a daring daylight heist S.Kumar Gold and Diamonds- a jewellery showroom located in the Shanti Nagar area of Mira Road on 7, January. Pretending to be customers, the accused walked into the showroom at around 2 pm. While the sales-staff were displaying gold chains and other ornaments, two of them whipped out firearms and all fled with gold and diamond studded ornaments worth more than Rs. 1.54 crore. Three weeks after the crime, a team from the Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh police along with the MBVV cops apprehended the trio including the kingpin identified as- Vinay Kumar Singh and his accomplices-Dinesh Kalav Nishaad (24) and Shailendra Murari from Chinhat Dewa Road in Lucknow. Apart from registering an offences under IPC, the police have also slapped sections of the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against the gang members.