Habibganj police on Wednesday nabbed four vehicle-lifters during vehicle checking and recovered five vehicles worth Rs12 lakh from their possession.
According to the police, during the routine vehicle checking, a red coloured Maruti car was stopped and when the persons in the car were questioned and asked to produce the documents of the vehicle they failed to provide satisfactorily. The four were nabbed and in the interrogation confessed that the vehicle was stolen.
Investigating Officer SI Rajendra Prasad Yadav said that the nabbed accused is involved in driving and maintaining school vans. They used to drive school van driver and would stole the vehicles. Vehicles were disposed later but at the moment it is not possible to provide the total number of vehicles stolen by the nabbed accused.
The nabbed accuseds were identified as Sagar Bagul of Bengali Colony, Rakesh Suryavanshi of Depot square, Suraj Kamble of Arjun Nagar and Shaikh Yunus of Madrasi Colony.
The vehicles were stolen from different parts of the city. During the investigation police found that the accused have stolen one vehicle from Habibganj area, two from TT Nagar area and two from Kamla Nagar area.
The IO Yadav said that the accused were not involved in any burglary and it is possible that more vehicles would be recovered from them in the investigation.