Mohali, April 11 -- Over nine months after a brazen daylight gold jewellery heist in Mohali's bustling Phase-10 market, police have cracked the case with the arrest of two accused.

Holding the shop owner's mother at gunpoint, the duo had made off with 350 grams of gold, leaving shopkeepers and residents in the area shocked.

Identified as Amir Khan, alias Ali, 27, a native of Haryana and currently residing in Sector 52, Chandigarh, and Sagar, 22, a resident of Mohali, the accused had been quietly running a salon in Phase 11, leading double lives as hairstylists, following the broad daylight robbery, said police.

Following an exhaustive months-long probe, combined with human and technical intelligence, the accused were arrested from thei...