The MHB Colony police have arrested an autorickshaw driver who allegedly stole several manhole covers at night with an accomplice.  The accused, Narayan Bhimrao Ghayal, 35, resides in Sant Rohidas Chawl, Dahisar West.

According to police sources, the complainant, Dashrath Dhondiram Yedge, 36, a civil engineer with SKSP Associates, the company executing a sewer line project in Dahisar, under the BMC’s R North ward, inspected the site on July 29 and confirmed that all manhole covers were intact.

The next morning, company supervisor Shivlal Chaudhary informed him over the phone that two covers were missing and shared photographs of the open manholes. When Yedge visited the location, he found both covers near the riverbank area missing and could not locate them nearby. The cost of the two stolen covers was estimated at Rs 10,000.