After scanning more than 45 CCTV cameras, the Aarey police traced a 26-year-old man who had robbed the survey machine, used for Metro construction, last week. Many important works of the Metro project were stalled due to the theft of the survey machine. 

After 96 hours of non-stop work, the Aarey police traced the accused, identified as Vaibhav Thorve, and arrested him from the Mahakali Caves area of Andheri East. The police recovered the stolen machine, which the accused had hidden in the Aarey jungle. The incident came to light on February 7, when the officials at the Metro site noticed that the ground survey machine of the Eagle Infra India was missing.