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Mumbai: Deaf-mute posers’ career in crime ends after 8 years

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Vadival Kaliappan Bhoyar, leader of the gang of thieves who stole from people by pretending to be deaf and mute, enters Bank of Maharashtra in Malad posing as a customer on June 16. Moments later, he nicks the assistant branch manager’s iPhone worth Rs 40,000 and sneaks out. Illustrations/Uday Mohite

Vadival Kaliappan Bhoyar, leader of the gang of thieves who stole from people by pretending to be deaf and mute, enters Bank of Maharashtra in Malad posing as a customer on June 16. Moments later, he nicks the assistant branch manager’s iPhone worth Rs 40,000 and sneaks out. Illustrations/Uday Mohite

The assistant manager, realising her phone is missing, frantically checks its location using the Apple account, and traces it to Dharavi. She immediately dials up the police from the bank to file a complaint

Police rushes to the branch and starts examining the footage of all the CCTV cameras at the bank to track their movement. They later also check the footage from railway stations from Malad to Matunga

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