After more than 90 break-ins, the game's up for India's 'Robin Hood'
By day, Madhukar Mohandas Prabhakar was a respectable restaurant owner in the city of Pune in western India. But by night, he used planes or taxis to commute the 100 miles to Mumbai to carry out a string of audacious burglaries.
He was regarded as a pillar of his community and was well liked by locals, not least for his generosity in donating funds for the building of a Hindu Ganesh temple.
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Hide AdBut Indian police say that when he was not to be found in his popular MM Restaurant, Prabhakar adopted a rather different persona; that of a prolific housebreaker. Officers say his exploits resulted in more than 90 break-ins in Mumbai. He would arrive in the evening, carry out a raid, and leave the city before dawn.
But last Saturday, his luck ran out. Prabhakar is said to have left Pune in a taxi and arrived in Mumbai in the evening. There, he broke into a house and stole jewellery worth more than 2,000.
However, he was picked up by police carrying out a routine sweep operation and it was only later they realised the scale of his operations.