Piplani police nabbed a 25-year-old vehicle lifter and recovered five vehicles from his possession from Satnami Nagar on Wednesday, miscreant would visit city steal motorbike from different parts of the city, said police.
According to the police acting on a tip off a youth who was trying to sell motorbike at low price was nabbed and when he was quizzed regarding the motorbike he was not able to provide the details and document of the motorbike.
later he confessed that the motorbike was stolen from Ayodhya Nagar and in the further investigation the accused confessed that he had stolen four more motorbikes.
The nabbed miscreant was identified as Arvind Rajput of Sagar.
The registration number of the motorbike recovered from the accused was not clear and when the chassis number and engine number checked and it was found that the registration number of the motorbike was MP04-Ml-0334.
Police recovered a key chain having eight different keys which were of the stolen motorbikes.
The accused stole one motorbike in the month of June 2015 and remaining four motorbikes were stolen in the past two days.
The miscreant would sleep at footpaths and would hide the stolen motorbikes at abandoned BHEl quarters. Four motorbikes were recovered from BHEl quarters.
The miscreant is a habitual offender and has been booked for vehicle lifting by Piplani police in the past but after he was released from jail he continued vehicle lifting.
The police have registered a case under section 379 of the IPC and started further investigation.