Habitual offender resorts to old modus operandi of scaling scaffolding for robbery; residents, guards pierce early morning calm with shrill whistles
https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/one-half-of-bunty-babli-duo-strikes-at-ekta-heights-23217006
It was high drama at the upscale Ekta Heights building in Khar West as residents and security blew the whistle, literally, on a thief on Thursday morning. The 12-storey structure, with one flat on each floor, is undergoing work like waterproofing, painting and repairs, and the thief made use of the scaffolding to scale the wall.
Prakash Jain, secretary of the society, said, “Our building camera surveillance showed that at approximately 3.45 am on March 3, a man clad in all black was scaling the building scaffolding.
“He started climbing the scaffolding, and the security did not spot him. He went to the fifth floor and entered the flat. A resident woke up due to the noise and started shouting. However, the thief exited the flat via the scaffolding and went up to the 12th floor. The floor was empty and locked from outside,” he said.
Whistle wake-up
By then, shouts from the fifth-floor resident had alerted others. The key moment was when the building security blew “their whistles which are specially given to the guards. In fact, every flat has been given a whistle so that the sound serves as a warning call, telling people that something is wrong,” said Jain.