A joint team of Hazaribagh Police nabbed five bike-lifters from town and adjacent areas and recovered four stolen bikes stolen from different places. Police sources said that interrogation was going on and by Friday night some more bike thieves were likely to be arrested.
Some days ago, SP Akhilesh Jha had formed a joint team of police officers of all three police stations of Hazaribagh town to look into the incidents of bike thefts. In last crime meeting he had specially directed the police station in-charges to take measures to control the increasing trend of bike theft and loot.
Before the Ramnavmi festival the team was constituted and just after Ramnavmi the team has nabbed five culprits involved in bike thefts. The arrested youths are Prem Kumar Mahto and Rakesh Kumar Mehta of Ichak, Dinesh Kumar Mehta, Kamal Mehta and Vinod Kumar of Padma.
Sources said that two members of this gang were nabbed by the team from behind Indira Gandhi Residential School campus when both were trying to leave the town after stealing a Hero Glamour bike.
After getting information of bike theft, the team members sprang into action in the town and within hours the stolen bike and two thieves were in their custody.
During the interogation, the arrested thieves took some names and on the basis of their statement police further nabbed three more youths and recovered three bikes
from them.
It is hoped that these arrests would certainly control the incidents of bike thefts which have increased during last few months.