Woman held for robbery flees from police station, steals mobile phone before escape
Bharti Shinde, a domestic help, would flee with valuables from the houses where she worked.
Causing a major embarrassment to the city police, a 51-year-old woman, who was arrested for theft, fled from police custody, and stole a mobile phone from the station.
Identified as Bharti Shinde, the woman was arrested on Friday by the Oshiwara police for robbing cash and jewellery worth Rs 2 lakh from a posh locality of Lokhandwala.
Her modus operandi has been to pose as a domestic help and flee with valuables. She is already booked by the Dindoshi and Samta Nagar police in similar offences of theft.
On Friday morning, when the female constable who was keeping an eye on her at Oshiwara police station, went to the washroom, Shinde sneaked out of the room.
She found that the women who cleaned the police station was away and had kept her phone on charge. Seeing nobody was around, she fled with the phone of the janitor.
The police have launched a manhunt for Shinde, who is a resident of Nallasapora and a record criminal.
