The police district crime branch on Tuesday busted a six-member vehicle lifters’ gang and recovered 26 motorbikes from its possession.
On Monday, the police had caught two persons red-handed while trying to sell a motorbike at Awadhpuri Trisection. Since, they could not provide adequate information regarding the vheicles, they were detained and during investigation they were identified as Ashish Mathur(32) of Indore and Syed Akram (26) of Raisen.
During investigation, the two confirmed stealing motorbikes from Bairagarh, Hanumanganj, Nishatpura, Piplani and Govindpura area of Bhopal and Ganjbasoda of Vidisha district and few places in Sagar, told Superintendent of Police (Headquarters) Shashikant Shukla. Four motorbikes were recovered from Habibganj Railway station parking, four motorbikes were recovered from Minal Mall parking space, seven from Sagar. These vehicles were sold out to Abhisek Vishwakarma and Narendra Kushawaha, three to Bakhtawar Singh. Besides, seven vehicles were sold to Rajpal Yadav in Ashok Nagar were seized.
The gang members have confirmed that they used to open the parked motorbike and those motorbikes were stolen which were successfully unlocked. After the accused confirmed stealing police teams were dispatched and the vehicles were recovered. Four other accused were also nabbed who were involved in disposing the vehicles after buying them. Rajpal Yadav (28), Bhaktawar Singh (26) of Ashok Nagar, Abhisek Vishwakarma (21) and Narendra Kushwaha (25) of Sagar.
The main accused Ashish Mathur had been held earlier by the district police in connection of vehicle lifting while Syed Akram was arrested for illegal trafficking of liquor in Betul. Narendra Kushwaha and Abhisek Vishwakarma were nabbed in Sagar for their involvement in attempt of robbery. Rajpal Singh and Bakhtawar Singh were involved in agriculture works while Abhisek used to work at a furniture shop and Narendra used to work as security guard.