The Bhopal crime branch nabbed two vehicle-lifters and recovered three two-wheelers worth `2.5 lakh from their possession on Friday.
Acting on a tip off, from Habibganj railway station, the police nabbed a man with a red coloured Bajaj Pulsar motorbike and when he tried to escape he was chased down by the police.
The nabbed accused was identified as Bhagwan Singh Keer (28), who confessed stealing motorbike from Sehore around a year ago and was using the same motorbike.
In the initial investigation he confessed that he had bought two Bajaj Pulsar motorbikes from Meharban Kanjar and Ashok Keer at `8,000 each and later sold the motorbikes to Dharamraj alias Raj of Raisen district at `12,000 each.
Based on the information a team was dispatched to Raisen and Dharamraj was nabbed by the police and recovered two stolen motorbikes which were sold to him by Bhagwan but Meharban and Ashok are yet to be traced.
Bhagwan purchased the vehicles from Indore from Meharban and Ashok but it was not found that the two are from Indore or came to Indore to sell the stolen motorbike.
Police said that Bhagwan works as labour while Dharamraj works as driver. Search for the absconding accused has been intensified.
Out of the three motorbikes police have traced the details of the stealing of the motorbike while the details of the two motorbikes are yet to be found as the two motorbikes were found without registration number. It is possible that the registration number was removed by the miscreants or they vehicles were stolen before they were provided registration number.