mumbai ornaments collectively worth rs 53 lakh were stolen from apartments in byculla and malad in separate instances on mondayin the first case a 30yearold housewife kalyani sarmalkar had stepped out for a few hours when unidentified burglars broke into her residence at durvankur building in bycullas ghodpadev area they smashed open the door lock on sarmalkars flat between 1030 am and 1 pm and decamped with rs 5000 in cash and 145 tolas of gold ornaments worth rs 295 lakh the byculla police have registered a case of housebreakingin the second case in malad w businessman chittaranjan desai 23 was away when his flat near liberty garden was burgled the thieves broke the door latch to gain entry to the house and fled with 23 tolas of gold ornamants worth rs 23 lakh from his cupboard around 1 pmthree incidents of chainsnatching were also reported on monday in the first case in borivli w a 37yearold woman susheela shah on her way to her maternal home with her sister dulma gupta when a youth snatched her mangalsutra around 915 pm near shimpoli bridge the sisters were accompanied by two other relatives after the group raised an alarm the snatcher was nabbed he was later identified as narendra bora a cameraman the stolen 10gm mangalsutra was recovered from himat v p road in south mumbai two men on a bike were arrested for their involvement in two chainsnatching cases on monday the accused are salim mohammad 43 and taufiq ansari 32 at 1030 pm the duo snatched a gold chain worth rs 80000 from girgaum resident deepak dhure at 1110 pm the duo targetted another passerby kalpesh parmar but parmar and his friend chased them as they were fleeing with parmars chain they were handed over to the police around midnight