Updated On: 19 January, 2021 08:45 AM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondent
The CCTV footage of inside the jewellery shop had captured the three accused digging a hole in wall using a gas cutter around 12.45 am.

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In a crime straight out of a Bollywood film, three men posing as fruit merchants leased a shop adjoining a jewellery unit in Thane’s Vartak Nagar area and later drilled their way into it through the common wall and fled with gold and silver ornaments worth Rs 1.3 crore, Thane police said.
According to officials, the incident was reported on Sunday morning after the jeweller approached the Vartak Nagar police. The CCTV footage of inside the jewellery shop had captured the three accused digging a hole in wall using a gas cutter around 12.45 am. The identity of the accused remains unknown except for their visuals as they had not shared any identity proof with the shop owner, states a report in The Times of India.