Jamshedpur, July 27: In a major breakthrough, city police on Monday busted a gang of criminals which used to buy stolen bikes and later sell the spare-parts of the vehicles at a garage under Azadnagar police station area in Mango.
In this connection, the police have arrested two persons and recovered five stolen motorcycles as well as spare-parts of over 70 dismantled stolen bikes from premises.
Revealing about the breakthrough, superintendent of police (city) Subhash Chandra Jat said that the racket was running as the mini-factory of the stolen bikes. The police arrested two youths during a vehicle-checking drive at Kadma late on Sunday night.
“During the vehicle-checking drive, two persons were nabbed while riding a stolen bike. On being interrogated, one of the riders, identified as Mohammed Iqbal, confessed that he has a garage at Azadnagar where he used to keep stolen bikes and used to dismantle the parts of the stolen bike for selling them. On getting the information, a police team led by OC, Kadma thana Ranjit Kumar took Iqbal to the garage and found a huge large number of bikes’s spare parts kept meticulously like a shop-keeper keeps one’s goods for sale,” said the city SP while talking to Morning India.
Jat said on counting the spare-parts it was found that over 70 bikes had been dismantled and the spare-parts were carried in two trucks to Kadma thana which is about 10 kms away from Azadnagar.
A large number of bike-lifting gangs are suspected to be active in the city these days, posing a huge challenge to the already under pressure police force. Vehicle thefts have indeed assumed alarming proportions, registering a sharp increase.
The figures from the police show that about 10 bikes have been stolen from different places in the last three days. In the last 24-hours alone three bikes were stolen from different places.
�I had kept my bike outside my house and went to have lunch. When I returned I was shocked to see my bike missing. Though I have field FIR at Jugsalai police station and I have little hope of recovering it,”
said Bijendra Gupta.
A police officer who is also a part in the investigating team said that Iqbal (35) had evolved a new technique to make a good earning by selling the spare-parts of the stolen vehicles as selling a stolen bike to someone was not easy.
