In a bizarre incident in Mumbai, a 28-year-old man was arrested for stealing electronic control modules (ECM) and injectors from cars in parking lots over the past year. The accused stole the parts to pay for his girlfriend's shopping.

The accused, identified as, Mohsin Mehboob Shaikh, a resident of Kurar, Malad East, was finally arrested after tracking him for several months according to MIDC police. Gorakhnath Jadhav, 40, a resident of Narayan Nagar Chawl on Jijamata Road in Andheri East, reportedly addressed the police and claimed that numerous automobiles parked nearby had been targeted and their ECMs and injectors had been taken. According to Jadhav, this was the first time that such thefts had occurred in their neighborhood.

A team of four police officers was assembled, and they started looking through more than 50 CCTVs in the vicinity and other places to find the robber. An officer from MIDC police station said, “The recordings we acquired were not clear and did not help us in identifying the robber.” The police then resorted to their network of informers who lead them to several garage owners who were buying these stolen ECMs in Malad East.

Upon questioning the garage owners, the officers found that Shaikh sold 36 ECMs from all sorts of cars worth ₹2.80 lakhs in the past year. After locating Shaikh's girlfriend's residence, the police set up a trap near Kurar village, where the accused was spotted on Saturday riding a two-wheeler with a woman. Shaikh tried to flee after spotting the police but was apprehended. The police found 98 ECMs and injectors upon searching his house. Shaikh confessed that he had stolen the parts to pay for his girlfriend's shopping spree.