India, April 7 -- Crime Branch officers of the Mira-Bhayander-Vasai-Virar police have arrested two alleged thieves within days of a Rs.9 lakh theft committed by them. The police managed to nab them by working with only one clue: the word 'Dayavan' written on the back of their getaway rickshaw.

After scanning the footage of 300 CCTV cameras, the police officers, disguised as porters, stall employees and shoeshine boys, laid a trap outside Mumbai Central railway station and arrested the men who had stolen valuables worth Rs. 9 lakh from the house of a Vasai-based businessman .

The theft happened on March 26 at the house of Ali Akbar Thandlawala at Silent Park in Vasai West. The thieves broke into the then empty flat and fled with the valu...