India, May 13 -- The police have arrested a 20-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh who allegedly posed as a working professional and swapped commuters' laptop bags with dummy ones on Mumbai's suburban railway network.

The accused, identified as Karan Rajeshwar Mishra, was arrested from his native village in Uttar Pradesh on May 7. Police said his arrest helped solve five laptop theft cases: four registered in March and one on April 11 at Vashi Railway Police Station under section 305(c) (theft from transport vehicles) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

According to the police, Mishra would board suburban trains in formal attire, carrying a laptop bag filled with scrap material to avoid suspicion. He allegedly targeted working professionals tra...