mumbai for the past couple of months some roadside cloth hawkers in kandivli west have been making windfall profits by getting punjabi suit materials for dirt cheap the supplier five homemakers from a housing society on balasinor society on sv road who sold at least 4300 such suit materials at one fourth of their market prices all these at the expense of a local garment shophow the suit materials worth rs 258 lakh were stolen by the five women from the godown of a local garment shop by taking turns every night for the last twothree months the theft came to light last week when the shopowner mahesh thakkar 52 realized 34 cartons of suit materials were missing while checking the stock after conducting enquiries with his staff and checking his account books he approached police initially i did not find anything amiss and started getting doubts when cartons started vanishing but there was no sign of any breakin he saidwith no clues to work on police started trying to trace the people who had bought the stolen materials they finally found the buyers who pointed the finger at the roadside hawkers who in turn revealed how they got the materials from five womenrenu tobedo 33 pratima tiwari 30 parmeshwari pandiyal 23 vimala kalavli 40 and sheela mishra 50 investigation revealed that the women entered the godown between 2am and 3am every night using a duplicate key which they circulated among themselvesthe women sold the stolen suit materials to roadside hawkers for rs100rs150 while they cost rs600 in market police said adding they are trying to find out how the women got a duplicate keykandivli police senior inspector mukund pawar said the women who were arrested on friday have been has been booked for theft ipc section 380 and housetrespass or housebreaking at night sections 454 and 457