The Mumbai police are in for a tough time cracking down on crime in the big bad city. Their khabris, crucial cogs in the police’s crime detection and intelligence gathering machinery, have stood up in revolt against them.

City’s ace informers have refused to aid cops in order to protest the recent arrests of two of their own, in allegedly false cases. Informers Sarfaraz Shaikh alias Guddu and Aarman Iqbal Khan were arrested by the Nagpada police a few days ago, after some locals complained that they were demanding extortion money in the name of the police.