Acting on a tip-off, the VP road police on Saturday arrested two thieves who specialized in house breaking thefts (HBT) and recovered 36 high end mobile phones from them. Officials said the two along with their third accomplice had broken into a mobile phone shop at Girgaum and stolen 49 mobiles and cash of Rs 4.42 lakh on September 27, last month.

Officials said after the incident they checked CCTV footage of nearby shops and found that one of the suspect looked similar to a criminal with past police record. Informers told police that the suspect was likely to come in the Girgaum area, when the police team arrested the suspect Arfin Sayeed, after questioning him a second suspect Shakib Shaikh has been arrested.