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After more than 90 break-ins, the game's up for India's 'Robin Hood' The Scotsman, 15 August 2008 Gethin Chamberlain in Delhi AN INDIAN Robin Hood who stole from the rich and donated part of his haul to the poor is behind bars after finally falling foul of his own sheriff of Nottingham. By day, Madhukar Mohandas Prabhakar was a respectable restaurant owner in the city of Pune in Maharashtra state in western India. But by night, he used planes or taxis to commute the 100 miles to the state capital of Mumbai to carry out a string of audacious burglaries. Prabhakar was regarded as a pillar of the community in the Khadaki area of Pune and was well liked by local people, not least for his generosity in donating funds for the building of a Hindu Ganesh temple. But Indian polie 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 that his exploits resulted in a string of more than 90 break-ins in Mumbai. His technique would involve arriving in the evening, carrying out a raid, and leaving the city before dawn. But last Saturday, his luck ran out. According to an officer who spoke to the Hindustan Times newspaper, Prabhakar 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. He was picked up by police carrying out a routine sweep operation and it was only later that officers realised the scale of his operations and established just how he managed to carry out his crimes. “He selects the target after locating a locked house in a taxi,” an officer explained.
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