Eight members of a vehicle lifter gang were nabbed and 65 two-wheelers and 25 logs of teak were recovered from their possession by Ashta police; gang members used to steal vehicles for carrying stolen Teak.
According to the Ashta police, gang members involved in stealing motorbikes and teak were nabbed and valuables worth `25 lakh were recovered from their possession.
SP Sehore Manish Kapuria said that gang members were nabbed after reports of stealing of teakwood were received and in the process vehicle lifters were also targeted as the number of stolen vehicle increased in the past few months.
Nabbed accused include vehicle lifters and those who used to dispose the vehicles and teak. They used to carry stolen teak on stolen motorbikes and would escape with wood leaving the vehicle when found by police and forest guards.
It is the biggest recovery in the state till date. The nabbed gang member have confessed stealing around 300 two wheelers.
The recovery is around worth `25 lakh and more recoveries would be done and accomplices involved in thefts and disposing the vehicles would be nabbed. The vehicles were recovered from more than a dozen places.
The gang members were active in six districts where the density of the two wheelers were good and after stealing the vehicles they were sold at throw away price after using them for transporting teakwood.
Initially police nabbed Naushad Khan, Tajjudin Mewati, Asif Mewati, Manish Khaati who confessed that Sandeep Khaati, Meharbaan alias Shailu, Rajpal Khaati and Manish Khaati. Rajgarh, Mandsaur,Ujjain, Ratlam, Sehore, Bhopal, Indore and nearby areas were targeted by the gang.