Crime branch nabbed a three member vehicle lifters’ gang from Shahjehani Park and recovered a motorbike from their possession on Tuesday.
Acting on a tip off regarding a youth trying to sell a motorbike near Shahjahani Park was detained and when he was questioned he was not able to provide documents of the motorbike.
The accused was identified as Surendra Kumar Uike of lalghati. The accused initial tried to mislead the police personnel but later confessed that the he had purchases the motorbike from his house owner Santosh Kumar and when Santosh was searched and quizzed he told the police that he had bought the bike from his friend Anil Vishwakarma and based on the information Anil was nabbed who confessed stealing of bike from Nishatpura.
In the initial investigation the three confessed that few days ago when they were at bar in Karond they decided to steal a motorbike as they used to walk a lot and a motorbike would make their task easy and Anil who was having a duplicate key stole a bike using the key and later the three returned home on the stolen motorbike.
The stolen vehicle was recovered when Surendra went to sell the bike and was nabbed by the police.
Surendra works as a labour, Santosh works as driver and Anil works as carpenter. The nabbed accused persons are habitual criminal and police suspects that due to the addiction of liquor the possibility of involvement of the three in other crimes cannot be ruled out. Police said that the criminal records of the three would be investigated in the further investigation.