India, May 26 -- The MHB Colony police on Saturday arrested a man who allegedly set on fire a two-wheeler and the house of his neighbour on May 14. The fire was initially suspected to be due to a short circuit. However, after scanning CCTV footage at the site, the police found that the accused and his three accomplices had torched the two-wheeler.

The complainant, Julie Kewat, 37, lived in a chawl in Ganpat Nagar in Borivali West. The accused, Devraj Siddharth Patil, 22, lived in the same chawl as Kewat. On the night of May 14, the neighbours alerted the fire brigade about a fire starting in Kewat's house. According to the police, she was sleeping in the drawing room then. She woke up due to heat and rushed her family outside to raise an...