The TT Nagar police have on Thursday nabbed a three-member gang engaged in vehicle lifting and have recovered four cars worth lakhs of rupees from their possession.
While speaking to media, Superintendent of Police South Anshuman Singh told that three youths were nabbed during a vehicle checking drive on Thursday in TT Nagar area. When interrogating about the vehicle in which they were traveling, they were not able to provide the registration documents, which suggested that the vehicle was a stolen one.
Three were taken to police station and they accepted to have been involved in vehicle thefts. The nabbed accused persons have been identified as Anil alias Hemant Naamdev (22), Karan Singh Tomar (22) and Narendra Singh Tomar (24). Singh told that the gang members used a different kind of modus operandi. They used to follow the victim and first used to steal the keys of the vehicle. later, they used to wait for opportunity and used to steal the vehicle by using original keys.
Shahid alias Sameer and Rizwaan used to sell the stolen vehicle and are still absconding. The accused were fond of new vehicles and used to roam in the stolen vehicles after altering the number registration. Around a year ago, they had stolen a Maruti Alto of a city based doctor. When they went to collect donation from the victim they stole the car keys and later took away the car.
The accused were earlier booked for vehicle lifting at Bajaria and Kotwali police station areas. The accused hail from Sehore and for the past few years, they are working in the city. The vehicles were recovered from lalita Nagar, near the house of Karan Singh. Anil used to work as driver, Karan used to work as house painter and Narendra used to work as daily wage worker at Bhopal district Panchayat office.