Shahjehanabad police have busted a four-member vehicle-lifter gang and recovered two four-wheelers and seven motorbikes from their possession on Saturday during vehicle checking driven near office of ambulance service 108.
Police said that a white coloured bolero jeep tried to escape at a vehicle checking post but was chased and flagged down by the on duty police personnel.
The police tried to stop the vehicle as the vehicle was not having registration number.
After the vehicle was seized four miscreants were found inside the jeep and when they was quizzed regarding the jeep they were not able to provide documents and details of the vehicle. The nabbed accused was identified as Vinod Dhurve (22) of Habibganj, Rohit Dube (22) of Jabalpur, Rajesh Choubey (39) of Hoshangabad and Manoj Choudhary (26) of Betul.
The accused tried to escape after been stopped by the police near office of ambulance service 108 and were chased and caught near Sanjay Nagar.
During the investigation police found that the accused Vinod had stolen the vehicle from Sagar. The gang members confessed stealing of nine more motorbikes.
The accused used to escape after stealing of vehicles and would stay for a 2-3 months as different place and later after stealing vehicle again move to different place.
Their hide outs were Jabalpur, Raisen and Betul. The gang members confessed that the vehicles have been stolen from different parts of the city.
Police are yet to establish the disposing of vehicles and the number of vehicle stolen by the gang members. The details would be searched in the further investigation.