The use of vehicle portal during vehicle checking drive has started yielding results. Over the last two weeks the police have been able to nab a gang of six miscreants from lateri in Vidisha district and nine motorbikes have been seized from their possession.
Police said during a drive on May 14, a youth, identified as Saddam Khan from Madanpura (lateri) was detained by the police after failing to provide registration documents of a motorbike. During interrogation it was confirmed that one Funnu alias Siddiqui Khan of Veerpur near lateri was involved in vehicle thefts. Funnu was nabbed by the police and two vehicles were seized from his possession.
During further investigation Funnu disclosed that Munne Khan, Manoj Bhoi, Manak Chandra Sahu all of Sherkheda village , Mallu Yadav of Gadhi village were also involved in the gang and used to steal and dispose of the vehicles.Two of the motorbikes were stolen from Civil lines area of Vidisha while few were from Bhopal.
Out of the recovered vehicles four motorbikes where of Hero Honda company, one was of TVS company while the remaining were of Bajaj company. Police hoped that more motorcycles could be recovered from them after interrogation and investigation.