The TT Nagar police on Sunday nabbed two vehicle lifters and recovered 9 vehicles worth Rs 3.5 lakh from their possession.
Police said that after receiving information of the two miscreants trying to sell a bike at very low rates, police reached the spot and detained the two.
Nabbed accused were identified as Ziauddin (38) of Sindhi Market and Kalimur Rehman (42) of Peergate.
The two miscreants were on Honda Unicorn motorbike bearing registration number MP 04 MU 3449 and when the two were questioned regarding the bike, they failed to produce the documents of the motorbike. The two were detained and brought to the police station where they confessed to have stolen the motorbike from Koh-e-Fiza area around two months ago.
During the investigation, the two confessed to have targeted vehicles which remained parked for 1-2 days and would steal the vehicle which remained unlocked or by breaking the lock.
The two confessed to have stolen eight more vehicles which were recovered. They used to steal the vehicles to spend luxuriously. The vehicles have been stolen in the last three years.
Zia has been booked for more than a dozen thefts while Kaleem has been booked for theft, assault, illegal possession of weapons.
Cops have started investigation regarding disposal and buying of the vehicle. Out of the nine vehicles, 6 were stolen from TT Nagar area, one each from Koh-e-Fiza, MP Nagar and Habibganj police station areas.
The accused have been booked by different police stations.