The District Crime Branch has arrested a man on charges of looting ornaments from a woman and later they also found out that the accused is a two-wheeler lifter as well, police said here on Sunday.
Four bikes besides ornaments worth Rs2.10 lakh were recovered from the possession of the accused, police claimed.The accused was identified as Gopal alias Choru Dewangan resident of Purani Bhilai, police said. On May 7 this year, the accused had targetted a woman in Umdakar area under Purani Bhilai police station and had allegedly looted gold ear-tops she was wearing. A case was registered in this connection. The District Crime Branch officials had got information that a person was trying to find a buyer for some ornaments and was moving around in Bhilai-3 market on a bike.
Accordingly, the crime branch sleuths nabbed Gopal with the stolen gold ear-tops.The accused was then subjected to interrogation wherein he confessed to stealing ornaments from a woman.Dewangan was also questioned about the bike and it was known that the bike was also stolen by him.He told the police that he had stolen bikes from Dongargarh, Rajnandgaon and Raipur. Based on the information, the bikes were recovered from Bhilai-3 area, police said.