Mumbai: Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) police arrested a history-sheeter for allegedly robbing the bag of a practising lawyer at Bombay High Court while she travelled in an auto-rickshaw from Kurla to her Malad home on July 31.The accused, Illiyaz Khan (22), was nabbed on Monday night after police chased him around a garden in Bandra when he noticed them. Police recovered the stolen bag from Khan and recovered the lawyer, Megha Sharma’s (26), PAN Card, Aadhar Card, few cash and beauty products worth over Rs 7000.Sharma was returning home after attending his friend’s birthday when her bag was robbed.Khan was tracked down after police scanned through dozens of closed circuit television (CCTV) from BKC to Bandra and identified him. “Khan is an history-sheeter was arrested by the Bandra railway police in a case of theft. He committed the offence a month after he was released on bail. There are over 14 cases of theft and robbery against him in Andheri and Bandra since 2022. He has used his friend’s bike to commit the offence after following the lawyer’s rickshaw and robbed while the vehicle moved parallelly in the same direction,” said a police officer of the BKC police station.In the complaint, Sharma said: “I was travelling in a rapido rickshaw at 1.45 am after attending my friend Aditi’s birthday celebration at Nehrunagar in Kurla East when the incident occurred. After the program, I booked the rickshaw to go home to Malad from that location. While traveling in the rickshaw, I was holding my bag in my hand. The bag contained my legal professional documents, Aadhaar card, PAN card, two debit cards, and one International Forex Card. While traveling in the auto-rickshaw, near Hansbhuga Junction, Bandra East a biker came near our auto-rickshaw and snatched the bag from my hand.”Sharma got the rickshaw driver to chase the biker, but he vanished at high speed before she approached the BKC police.DCP (West Zone-3) Nimit Goyal supervised the team of senior inspector Suresh Padvi, assistant inspector Kishore Parkale, sub-inspectors Sangram Bagal, Prakash Rathod and team, which scanned through CCTV and identified Khan, and gathered his whereabouts information through the criminal data record (CDR).
