Two unidentified youngsters wearing facemasks scaled up the 15-feet boundary wall of Shree Sambhavnath Jain Temple in Virar at 2.20 am on Wednesday and decamped with 16 idols made of precious ashtadhatu or octo-alloy (eight metals), collectively worth Rs 1.58 lakh.

A temple trustee Ashok Jain told mid-day that the priest Tilokichand Rawal found the doors of the temple opened at 5 am. "Rawal sleeps in the temple. After he woke up, Rawal found the doors open and the cash boxes in a mess," he said. Rawal told mid-day, "I did not hear anything throughout the night. Along with the valuable idols, they took my mobile phone worth R10,000." It is not clear how much money was in the cash boxes.