The Town police here busted a motorbike theft gang and arrested two persons, informed Town police station IIC Nihar Ranjan Pradhan on Thursday. The arrestees were identified as Sadananda Pradhan of Rajapur village and Rabindra Mohapatra of Jemadei Pentho Street. The police also recovered 21 stolen motorcycles from their possessions.
As per reports, Sadananda used to lift bikes from different locations and hand them over to Rabindra, who takes the bikes to a garage at Reddy Garage Square here and changes their chassis and engine numbers and sells them at low prices.