Two young men have been caught for threatening and robbing a photojournalist with what turned out to be a toy gun at Worli and doing away with Rs 15,000. As per news reports, the victim was exiting a Worli venue after finishing his work when two bike-borne young men confronted him and asked him to part with cash. They threatened him with a gun which, as was later found out, was a false or toy gun. New reports cite that they hit him on the head with the gun butt and fled.

They were nabbed after a complaint was filed. Vital though is the police statement that the two accused seemed to have used this modus operandi for other thefts too. Several persons may have been robbed but they had not filed a complaint since the amounts may have been small.