Hazaribagh police has busted an inter-State vehicle thieves’ gang and arrested two members of it from Chhattisgarh.
On their acceptance and clues, the police also recovered two Scorpios which they had stolen from Hazaribagh in the last week of February this year.
On February 27 2014, Raju Kushwaha of Kachanpur village of Katkamsandi block, driver of Scorpio vehicle no. JH 2X 1757, had filed an FIR in Hazaribagh Sadar police station. On February 25 driver of another Scorpio vehicle no. JH 02U 6277 Guddu Khan of Chistiya Muhalla told him that some passengers who are staying in a hotel need two Scorpios on rent.
With him he went to the hotel from where eight persons came out and four each sat in both Scorpios.
On 25th, they went to Medininagar and on 26th they went to Betla National Park. Both drivers also entered into the park and when they came out found that their vehicles were missing. They gave the information to local police there but they refused to register their FIR.
later after registering the FIR, Hazaribagh police started the investigation and first tried to get some clues from the local hotel from where the thieves have taken the Scorpios on rent. In hotel’s register they had given false names and papers. Then Hazaribagh police started tracing the activities of vehicle thieves’ gang in other States too.
DSP Arvind Kumar Singh said that last week they got information that some members of a vehicle thieves’ gang have been nabbed at Chhattisgarh.
SP Manoj Kaushik immediately sent DSP, OIC Sadar PS, JSI Javed Ahmed and Upendra Singh to Chhattisgarh to interrogate the nabbed thieves. Chhattisgarh police helped them and the thieves nabbed there informed about the members involved in stealing Scorpio form Hazaribagh. Police finally recovered both Scorpios which they had sold in Chhattisgarh and arrested two members of the gang.
With the arrested thieves Hazaribagh police has returned and now on Monday it will try take them on remand to get out the names and addresses of other members by interrogating them. DSP Arvind Kumar Singh said that the mastermind is still out but very soon he will be behind the bars.