District police nabbed 14 members of two gangs involved in stealing goods and vehicles and have recovered valuables worth Rs 60 lakh.
As many as 11 miscreants were nabbed by Berasia police and recovered around 186 sacks of wheat, truck bearing registration number MOC- 8077, Mahindra tractor trolley without registration number, truck bearing registration number MP-33- H-0809 worth Rs 25 were recovered. According to the police on November 23, 2013 the victim lodged a complaint with the Berasia police of truck bearing registration number MOC -8077 theft which was loaded with wheat bags.
A case was registered by the police and during investigation on November 27, 2013 the truck was found at Raisen road but the wheat bags were missing.
In the investigation it was found that Haseeb Khan and Mubarik Khan have stolen the truck and wit the help of Iqbal Khan, Waseem alias lallu, Waseem, Azaruddin, Shakeel and Bhura Khan the truck was unloaded. Around 21 tonnes of wheat was stolen from the truck. The gunny bags were emptied and were burned by the miscreants. The truck was unloaded by the truck driver Mohan Yadav with the help of tractor trolley driver Sanjay Pal and the wheat was sold to Pankaj Sahu and Anoop Maheshwari.
Pankaj Sahu is owner of Kisan traders and Anoop Maheshwari is owner of Jamna Traders. Meanwhile, in another incident three miscreants were nabbed by Gautam Nagar police and recovered valuables worth Rs 25 lakh. According to the police Vidya Sagar Transport handed over a delivery of goods for Areka Nuts Company from Banglore to Ghaziabad on December 16 but the truck owner and driver sold the beetle nuts to a city based trader at Rs 8 lakh.
After two days on December 27, 2013 truck owner Israr-Ul-Haq along with his driver Kamlesh Shakya took the truck in the night abandoned the truck near Berasia. Both Areka Nuts Company and Vidhya Sagar Transport were told that the truck has been stolen but the branch manager of Bhopal Yogesh Jain of Vidhya Sagar Transport was not willing to accept the incident and lodged a complaint with the Gautam Nagar police.
In the investigation the investigation when the driver and owner of the truck were questioned they confirmed committing the crime. During the investigation it was found that the documents of good were missing and the truck was cleaned after unloading the truck and these things are never done by vehicle lifters as they are not concerned with the document and cleaning the truck after stealing the goods.