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Robber 'Cool' who spent Rs 12K a day on wine and women

Catch-me-if-you-can game ends.

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Kiran Maniklak Shah’s extravagant lifestyle can put film stars in awe. He splurges a cool Rs12,000 on himself every day. The man does not wear the expensive shirts he sports more than once. And he puts up in plush lodges with wine and women his constant companions. Visits to beer bars are as essential to him as the joints he smokes.

Make no mistake. He is not a spoilt brat of rich parents. Shah, 35, is a cunning robber, who escaped arrest for eight years despite at least 150 cases lodged against him.

His luck, however, ran out on Wednesday after officers from the MIDC police station laid a trap for him in Kurla. Shah, who has many cases registered against him at MIDC, identified the officers and walked into the VB Nagar police station with the swagger of a batsman who had scored a century. The confidence stemmed from his belief that there was no case against him at MIDC.

“Arrest me,” he told the policemen, leaving them startled. Initially, the police asked him to leave, thinking he was a lunatic. But Shah’s game ended when an officer identified him from his photographs which were circulated at police stations. There was a case registered against him at VB Nagar police station, too.

An officer said Shah worked with two accomplices and was always on the lookout for rich young men who wore gold and used high-end cellphones. Once the prey was identified, his men would accost him, saying bhai (Shah) wanted to talk.

“The accomplices would take the victim to a secluded spot where Shah would accuse him of molesting his sister. He would threaten the victim with dire consequences, including arrest and then divest the victim of his gold ornaments, phone and cash,” said Arjun Sawant, assistant inspector at the VB Nagar police station. To escape arrest, Shah stayed in lodges for eight years and took a different girl with him every night, Sawant told dna. He rarely visited his wife and two children, who live in a slum in Ghatkopar.

“He is also a drug addict. He does not eat and survives only on tea. He asks for drugs if we insist that he eat,” Sawant said. Shah is now in custody of the Kurla police.

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