Overview

• Acting on a tip-off, Crime Branch Unit-8 laid a trap in Borivali on October 6 and intercepted suspects swapping barcode labels inside a delivery vehicle near a Reliance Digital store.
• Four men were arrested, identified as Pankajkumar Jindal, Vijaykumar Saharan, Shamsher Singh Aalan (all from Haryana) and Sumantkumar Sahu (from Chhattisgarh).
• Officers seized goods valued at Rs 45,09,333, including electronic items worth about Rs 34,09,333 and two vehicles—a Tata tempo (Rs 7 lakh) and a Hyundai car (Rs 4 lakh).
• The accused were produced before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate in Dadar and remanded to police custody until October 13.
• Investigators are mapping the wider network and potential delivery-chain insiders, as reports differ on whether three or four suspects were caught in the act during the sting.