Raipur

Bike-lifter gang busted, four nabbed

Staff Reporter

The Central Crime Branch (CCB) on Sunday busted a gang of bike lifters, arrested four persons and seized 14 stolen bikes. The market value of seized bike is about Rs6.15 lakhs police said on Sunday. The accused arrested were identified as Shashank Sharma (28), resident of Satyam Vihar Colony, Raipura, Suman Sahu (25) of Chhattisgarh Nagar, Ring Road, Tikarapara and Vishnu Sahu (26), resident of Bajrang Nagar, Saraswati Nagar. Shashank Sharma and Suman Sahu were arrested under suspicious circumstance near Raipura over bridge. During cross questioning accused confessed of lifting bikes from different parts of the city. Further on their instance bikes were recovered, police told reporters. Police have seized 8 bikes from the possession of Shashank Sharma while 3 bikes each were sized from Suman Sahu and Vishnu Sahu. Shashank Sharma and Vishnu Sahu are recidivists and have been earlier also arrested for stealing about 21 bikes. They were released from jail recently. The recovered bikes include some that were stolen in 2010, police maintained.