Under the special campaign launched in the city against motor vehicle lifters, the crime branch team busted a gang of thieves and seized nine motorcycles worth Rs 4 lakh from their possession.
In view of the increasing incidents of vehicle thefts, under the guidelines of Superintendent of Police Dr Anand Chhabra, additional SP Prashant Thakur and DSP (crime) Kavilash Tandon a campaign was launched against the thieves. Under the campaign, the crime branch team under the direction of in-charge inspector of crime branch Vishal Son and inspector Rajesh Sahu (Bhilai Nagar) gathered information about the thieves through informers.
On a tip-off from the informer, the crime branch team and the Bhilai city team arrested Monesh Sahu and Harish alias Golu alias Jangeera. On the revelation of the arrested thieves, the police team arrested their accomplices from Sector 9 hospital stand, Sector 6 and Durg Railway station and seized nine motor cycles, including Bajaj Discover, TVS Suzuki, Hero Honda Splendor Plus, CD Deluxe, Yamaha, Bajaj Pulsar and Bajaj Platina from their possession.
The cost of the seized vehicles is said to be Rs 4 lakh. The arrested thieves are being interrogated to unearth their involvement in other theft cases. Further action has been taken against the accused at the Bhilai and Mohan Nagar police stations. The role of SIs Bharatlal Sahu, SR Kushwaha, ASIs Dayashankar Pandey, Nandkumar Dubey, head constables Poorna Bahadur Singh, Keshav Tiwari, Karan Sonkar, Santosh Pandey, Subhash Sahu, constables Gurjeet Singh, G Ravi, Jitendra Singh, Anup Sharma, Ehfaz Khan, Mohammad Shamim, Amit Singh, Sriram and Yogesh Shrivastava was commendable in the arrest of the vehicle lifters.