The MIDC police have arrested two of the four people who had barged into the house of an Andheri-based couple last month and looted them of Rs 17 lakh at gunpoint. Investigation has revealed that the main accused was earlier arrested in a murder case in 2017 after the victim helped the cops identify an eyewitness in the case. The victim claims that the accused looted him to take revenge.  

The victim, identified as Ebrahim Chaudhary, 45, is a resident of SRA Rustomjee Society in Andheri East, where even main accused Mahesh Chaudhary resides. Mahesh was arrested in 2017 for killing a man by the name Mukesh over a property dispute. The second arrested accused has been identified as Deepak Raina, who was earlier nabbed in house break-in cases and had met Mahesh in jail, where they had planned the robbery.