“On Tuesday, the BMc sent another letter to Matunga police requesting them to increase night patrolling on Babasaheb Ambedkar Road and in nearby areas,” said Chakrapani Alley, assistant municipal commissioner of F North ward. Meanwhile, the BMC has taken up work of refilling the footpath to avoid inconvenience to the locals due to the onset of monsoon.

What happened
MTNL had started receiving a large number of complaints from customers about dead telephones, after which the company checked and found that cables it had laid under the footpath along Ambedkar Road, between Dadar TT Circle and Maheshwari Udyan, had been stolen. Someone had dug up the footpath and stolen around 103 metres of copper cable worth Rs 6.78 lakh from near the bus stop at Babasaheb Ambedkar Marg. All six accused in the case have been arrested.