mumbai the sensational heist in which conmen stole diamonds worth rs 37 lakh from an andheri w jewellery store after replacing them with similarlooking glass pieces was solved last friday cops traced the cellphone of one of the accused himself a diamond trader to surat and arrested him with the stolen diamondskarsan boricha and bhimji patel had recently approached a newlyopened andheri jewellery shop and placed an order for diamonds they asked the shopkeeper to keep the diamonds ready in packets and while examining the precious stones swapped the packets with identical ones that contained glass pieces the jeweller reported the theft to amboli police station though officials arrested both of them they but could not recover the diamonds from themboricha and patel however told interrogators that the stolen diamonds were with diamond trader bharat dudhatra officials tried to locate dudhatra but he went underground as soon as he heard that his pals had been arrested investigators then questioned dudhatras business associates and learnt that he was using a new mobile numberpolice subinspector u s rajge said we tried to locate dudhatra and visited his native village kheradi in rajkot district of gujarat but he continued to elude us we then convinced a local contact in gujarat to call up dudhatra on his new number he introduced himself as a trader interested in buying diamondsa suspicious dudhatra went on giving him false locations but the frequent mobile calls helped cops trace dudhatras location on the outskirts of surat cops then laid a trap and arrested dudhatra when he came out of his hideout we have recovered most of the stolen diamonds from him an official saidvijaysingh6timesgroupcom