Overview

• The theft occurred on the night of September 6 at the AP Tower Radar post inside the restricted Navy Nagar residential area in Colaba.
• An unidentified man wearing a naval uniform posed as a Quick Response Team reliever and was handed the post by a junior sailor before disappearing.
• The missing items include an INSAS rifle and three magazines, with 40 live rounds in two of them, and the weapon has not been recovered.
• An FIR under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita theft provisions was filed at Cuffe Parade Police Station, and the Agniveer on duty, Alok Kaushal Kishore Singh, 20, is being questioned.
• The Navy and Mumbai Police are leading a coordinated search with the Crime Branch and ATS, with the Times of India reporting NIA involvement, as investigators review CCTV and work from a suspect sketch.