MUMBAI, March 24 -- The Dadar police have arrested six employees of the Shree Siddhivinayak Ganpati Temple Trust on Monday for allegedly siphoning off cash from donation boxes over several months, possibly years, after CCTV footage exposed the insider racket. The arrests come just two days after the temple trust unearthed the alleged scam and led to the first arrest on Saturday. As more CCTV footage was reviewed, police widened the probe and picked up five additional staffers, taking the total number of arrests to six. The accused, identified as Rajendra Pendurkar, Anil Rahate, Arvind Kadage, Sharad Ghadi, Sameer Shivalkar and Padmakar Adarkar, worked as general staff and sweepers at the temple. According to investigators, they exploited their access to donation boxes meant for devotees' offerings. Police said the temple stores CCTV footage for 22 days, and scrutiny of the recordings has already revealed multiple instances of theft. "In just 22 days of footage, we have found at least six occasions where the accused were stealing cash from the donation boxes," a Dadar police officer said. The modus operandi, officers said, was brazen. The accused were tasked with transporting aarti donation boxes to the upper floors. Instead, they allegedly turned the boxes upside down to extract cash and even used their fingers to pull out currency notes from the slots. Investigators are now probing whether more thefts took place in blind spots, particularly inside lifts where CCTV coverage is absent. "We suspect they may have used the lift to carry out thefts beyond camera surveillance," the officer added. Police have so far recovered Rs.60,000 in cash. All six are set to be produced before a court on Tuesday....