In a joint effort, the Bhopal traffic police and Mangalwara police have nabbed eight members of a gang of miscreants, including two minors, involved in pickpocketing, robbery and thefts, said Addl SP (Traffic & Zone 5) Sameer Yadav while speaking with the media persons on Friday.
Addl SP Yadav said that the number of pick pocketing incidents had reportedly increased in the city in the past few months and to curb the number of pickpocketing a special drive was conducted to aim the pick picketers.
The nabbed accused have confessed pick pocketing, stealing, robbery, attacking the victim when caught pickpocketing, assault and other crimes. The accused have been booked for different crimes in different police stations and have served jail term. All the nabbed accused persons are habitual criminals.
The nabbed accused were identified as Ani (20) of Teelajamalpura, Daulatram (21) of Gandhi Nagar, Sabir (24) of Hanumanganj, Shahrukh (20) of Hanumanganj, Shadil (19) of Qazi Camp and Virendra (18) of Gautam Nagar and two minor accused.
On Friday acting on a tip off gang members are active from Alpana trisection and Grand Hotel area police team rushed to the area and detained the gang members who later provided information of other gang members. The gang members told the police they used to plan pickpocketing and would include minors to evade suspicion and target the passengers while boarding and aligning off the passenger buses in the city. They would move in group to escape and attack if they are caught red handed while committing crime.