MUMBAI, Aug. 5 -- The police arrested seven persons and busted an alleged MTNL cable theft racket in the early hours of Tuesday after catching the accused digging up a road in south Mumbai while posing as civic workers. Police said the accused were caught near Berkley Palace on Sir Jamshedji Jeejeebhoy Road. They had allegedly used a JCB excavator to dig up the road and had already removed around 70 metres of underground copper cable, which was loaded into a tempo. The group had also brought a Honda City car to the spot and were wearing reflective jackets to pass themselves off as Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) workers. "We seized the JCB, the Honda City, the tempo and 70 metres of copper cable valued at approximately Rs.55 lakh," said Manish Kalwaniya, deputy commissioner of police (Zone I). An FIR has been registered against the seven accused....