Sayeed Anwar Jamir Ansari and Aftab Ahmed Mohammed Yasin Qureshi (both hailing from Bijnore district in Uttar Pradesh), were charged with burglary after Harshad Shah, a trader from Nana Peth, lodged a first information report (FIR) at Bund Garden police station accusing them of attempting to commit theft at the residence of his sister Nalini Shah.

The two youths had entered the housing society campus around 1 am. On being questioned about the purpose of their visit, they told the society watchman Shambhunath Tewari that they had come to see a resident. Impressed by their expensive clothes and fluent English, Tewari allowed them to enter the building number 2, sub-inspector Satish Shinde told The Indian Express.

Shinde said the youths succeeded in breaking open the locks of two vacant flats with a crowbar. Later, they entered the adjoining building number 3 and broke open the lock of Gokul Pingale's flat. When they could not steal anything from Pingale's flat, the youths broke into Nalini Shah's flat.

Tewari suspected foul play after spotting the two youths entering the building number 3 and checked all the flats in building no 2. Later, he checked the flats in the other buildings and spotted the two youths entering Nalini Shah's residence. He immediately locked the flat from outside and raised an alarm, police said. The panicked youths locked themselves inside the flat as several stick wielding residents of the housing society assembled in front of the building in response to the cries for help by Tewari, police said.

The residents tipped off the police control room after all the efforts to coax the two youths to open the door failed. Officials at the police control room, in turn, alerted the Bund Garden police station.

Later the two youths surrendered to the police.A police team comprising inspector Vishwas Patil, assistant police inspector S G Khanse and sub-inspector Shinde is interrogating them to find out whether they are involved in other burglaries in the city.