Acting on a tip-off, Bokaro police busted a heavy vehicle lifter gang on Saturday.
Police arrested five members of the gang while other two members of the gang are still at large, police said.
Police also recovered a Haiwa dumper (regn no – JH05V 7330) looted from Bokaro on December 5, we yet to recover another Haiwa (JH05W 2180), police said.
The arrested were identified as Sanjay Verma alias Anup Kumar Patkh, Rakesh Jaiswal, Shelandra, Krishna Mohan and Sunil respectively from Jamshedpur, Dhanbad and Ramghar.
Investigation is on, the lifters used to sell their stolen vehicles in various cosmopolitan cities, told police.