Heist story: How Hyderabad police nabbed jewel thief wanted since ’13

HYDERABAD: Catching ‘jewel thief’ Jayesh Ravji Sejpal proved to be a herculean process for Hyderabad police officers. The seasoned legal took enough precautions to cover his tracks, not obtaining an Aadhaar card and used a SIM card received with fake ID proof. Cops even grilled Jayesh’s long-time partner-in-crime Ramesh Chaag, additionally a wanted legal in different states, however he too didn't know the whereabouts of his former affiliate.



After receiving a grievance from Venkat, a newly-married businessman from Himayatnagar, whose spouse’s jewelry was stolen from their Park Hyatt Hotel room by Jayesh, police officers tried to track his movement in the city via CCTV digital camera footage and cell phone records.

Soon, police realised that Jayesh, who was noticed talking over phone in the lodge lobby, was most effective pretending to do so. “His phone was off,” an investigator from Banjara Hills police station mentioned.

Cops then verified CCTV footage in the city and realised that Jayesh had boarded a green auto close to the lodge and went towards Masab Tank. Further research of the footage printed that Jayesh disembarked at Rajdhani Lodge, Nampally.

Police crew checked with the resort group of workers and located that the thief had given a photocopy of a bank passbook as deal with proof and the receptionist recorded his deal with in Mumbai, and Kandivali, because the identify of the buyer. Jayesh additionally gave a mistaken phone quantity to the resort group of workers.

After the theft, Jayesh stayed at the resort for 2 days and most effective after seeing his photograph in newspapers, returned to Mumbai. “Jayesh boarded a VRL Travels bus at Afzalgunj and went to Mumbai. He paid for the ticket in money,” a police reputable mentioned.

With groups in Mumbai not able to seek out Jayesh at addresses police managed to acquire from previous investigations, police officers searched the databases of Aadhaar and PAN. Aadhaar database didn't return any hits, however PAN database gave the much-needed lead.


Police found out that the cell phone quantity related to the bank account was not being utilized by Jayesh any further, however next technical investigation with the available information led them to his Thane hideout. Police additionally realised that Jayesh was moving between Vapi in Gujarat and Thane in Maharashtra regularly.


Jayesh, a class 10 drop-out, speaks Gujarati, Marathi, Hindi and English fluently. Police mentioned Jayesh bought the behaviour and dressing abilities to fool big name lodge group of workers from his revel in of operating at inns in Mumbai and Gujarat in his teenage and early twenties.


“An afternoon prior to committing the heist at Park Hyatt, Jayesh made a bid at Trident Hotel at Madhapur. However, Jayesh could not find any valuables there and since there was no loss of assets, a grievance was not lodged. We will produce the offender prior to the courtroom on Wednesday. We will initiate proceedings against Jayesh to book him beneath the PD Act,” deputy commissioner of police (DCP), West Zone, A Venkateswara Rao informed TOI.


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