Habibganj police nabbed two miscreants and recovered nine two-wheeler motorcycles and valuables worth Rs5.5 lakh from their possession on Monday. A total of 11 incidents of vehicle lifting and burglaries were admitted by the miscreants.
According to the police, a routine vehicle checking drive was conducted at Subash School trisection on Sunday evening and two youths who came on motorcycle bearing registration number MP04-AM-3330 tried to escape after spotting the police personnel at the check post. The youths were later chased and nabbed.
When the youth were questioned regarding the motorbike they were not able to provide any detail and documents of the motorbike and confessed to have stolen the motorbike from Habibganj area.
Out of the nine motorbikes five were stolen from Habibganj, three from MP Nagar and one from Chunabhatti area.
The nabbed miscreants were identified as Suraj Singh (19) and Jitu alias Jitendra (22) and they provided details of their third accomplice Atul Raikwar alias Nepali.
Suraj was pursuing BE from RKDF college and hails from Gujarat and during his studies he got engaged in a relationship with a girl and married her, but after marriage it became hard to meet ends and he started to steal bikes and burgle valuables.
Atul runs a dance class and came into contact of Jitu who is a habitual offender. The three then formed a gang and started to commit crimes across the city. The three used to keep the burgled goods at their homes and used to park the stolen vehicle as railway station parking.