Crime branch nabbed four miscreants and have recovered a truck worth Rs 17 lakh from their possession at 11 Mile area on Tuesday; truck was stolen from Mandideep.
According to the police acting on a tip off regarding selling of stolen truck by miscreants they were nabbed. The truck bearing registration number MP09-HF-5444 was stopped and four persons including the driver were detained and when they were questioned they were not able to provide documents and satisfactory answers.
later when they were quizzed they confessed that the truck was stolen from Mandideep on January 23 from Gelatin square.
The miscreants were nabbed at around 6 pm when they were spotted coming from Bhojpur.
In the initial investigation the miscreants were identified as Mohan Singh Prajapati (36) who works as driver, Riyaz Khan (30) who works as building painter, Amanat Khan (28) who works as weaver and Monu Ahirwar (22) who works as vegetable seller. Accused are resident of Mandideep and were acquainted. The four are involved in gambling and addicted to liquor. They lost money in gambling and were not able to provide money for household expenses due to which they decided to commit theft and targeted parked truck in Mandideep. For committing crime they contracted Bhaiyyalal who provided duplicate keys and later stole the vehicle. Police said that Bhaiyalal remains missing. Search for the absconding accused has been intensified.
The crime record of the four miscreants would be searched as it is possible that the accused have other crimes for money.