The Malad police, who had been hot on the trail of a jewellery shop burglar for an entire month, finally struck gold when they recognised him from his footwear and arrested him from Uttar Pradesh.  The police said they had initially used facial recognition systems (FRS) to identify the burglar but it was his footwear, that he had forgotten to change, that finally gave him away. The arrested accused has been identified as 30-year-old Mukeem Mateen Khan.

Earlier this week, on May 26, the police arrested him on the charge of committing burglary in a jewellery shop at Malad West. Khan, a resident of Ghatkopar, is a fabricator by profession and originally hails from Uttar Pradesh. On April 28, Khan broke into the Ratankala jewellery shop, located opposite Malad station, by removing the window AC unit at the rear of the premises and stole jewellery worth approximately Rs 4.99 lakh.

The accused (in black shirt) in police custody in UP’s Siddharthnagar