Garhwa police  arrested a member of an interstate thieves gang  and recovered two stolen motorcycles, Rs 23,000 cash, a mobile, a watch and a fake Aadhar card from him on Saturday. The arrested accused has been identified as Deepak Yadav, resident of village Jurabganj, under  Kodha police station of Katihar district, Bihar. 

Superintendent of Police Deepak Kumar Pandey said that for the past few months, incidents of snatching and theft of money from the bags and dickey of motorcycles were taking place in Garhwa and its surrounding police station areas. To solve these incidents, an SIT team was formed under the leadership of Sub-Divisional Police Officer, Neeraj Kumar.

 The team identified the suspects with the help of CCTV cameras of various places in the town and banks. He further said that their photographs were made available to the patrolling team.

On Saturday at around 08:30 am, a suspect was identified and caught near Ranka More Garhwa by the  police  patrol party. 

The SP said that during interrogation Deepak Yadav confessed that he forms a group with some boys of his village and goes to different cities, does recce in banks, and then follows  victim and snatches the bag from the dickey of his motorcycle or from the people walking on the road. 

The Superintendent of Police said that to commit the crime, these people use stolen motorcycles and fake Aadhar cards and mobile SIMs. The Superintendent of Police said that they take a rented room near the railway station and bus stand of the town and stay there for months and after committing many crimes, they go to another city.  Apart from Garhwa, these people have committed many such incidents in  Daltonganj, Aurangabad, Deoghar, Jamtara, Fatuha, Hajipur, Patna, Nalanda, Purnia etc. Fled associates of this gang are Amit Yadav, Lakhan Yadav and Anand Yadav who are residents of the same village.