Chandigarh Police on Tuesday arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly stealing 19 high-end bicycles of morning walkers from City’s parks. The stolen bicycles recovered were of nearly Rs 4 lakh, police said.
Chandigarh Deputy Superintendent of Police Charanjit Singh Virk said that the accused who has been identified as Neemkanta, resident of Kansal, Mohali. He was was working as a cook cum waiter waiter in parties. He used to visit different parks early morning and identify the cycles parked in the parking areas and break the locks of the cycle and take it away by stealing it. During interrogation, he confessed that he had stolen many cycles from various parks and used to conceal them in forests in Kharar in Mohali district.