NAVI MUMBAI: A 35-year-old Vashi resident, who used to work as a vice-president at a leading tech company, has been arrested for car-jacking and chain snatching. Five years ago, Sumit Sengupta quit his job where he was earning Rs 2.5 lakh per month due to “family problems”. “In 2015, Sengupta’s wife had lodged a cruelty case against him at Vashi police station. He was under stress due to personal reasons. And as he did not have a job, he found it difficult to fund his lavish lifestyle. He is a drug addict,” said investigating officer Vikas Gaikwad.Sengupta has told the police that he completed his engineering course from a leading city-based technical institute and was working at the tech company’s Pune office. “We arrested Sengupta and his accomplice, Nitin Agrawal (25), within 24 hours after they snatched a woman’s chain on December 12 in Vashi. The duo was in a stolen car when they snatched the chain and while committing the crime, they dragged the woman along a few feet before speeding away. Our teams studied footage from closed-circuit television cameras in the locality to get a clear picture of Sengupta. Through our informer’s network, we got to know that Sengupta resides in Vashi itself and we arrested the duo on December 13,” said Gaikwad.Sengupta had robbed the car used in the crime from outside Fortis Hospital in Vashi on December 9, by threatening to shoot the vehicle driver. “He did not actually have a gun on him and had merely put a metal object to the head of the car driver to scare him. He committed the crime three days later,” he added.Another theft case is registered against him at Vashi police station in 2017. “We inquiring if there are any more offences registered against him at any other police station.’’Vashi senior PI Anil Deshmukh said his crime detection team’s quick and efficient work cracked the case.

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