India, June 8 -- The Gandhinagar police on Saturday arrested four men from Kalol, Gujarat, allegedly part of a 13-member interstate gang suspected to be behind 35 metro cable thefts across Gujarat, Maharashtra, Delhi, and Madhya Pradesh, and recovered over 368 kg of processed copper wire worth Rs.8 lakh.

"The accused identified themselves as part of the Khekada (also spelt as Khekra) Gang, named after their home village in Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat district. They first targeted Delhi Metro about 10 years ago, stealing cables at midnight in areas without CCTV coverage. They used rented self-drive vehicles, like those in Gujarat, to execute their heists," Diwansinh Vala of Gandhinagar's Local Crime Branch said. The police also seized industr...