You should have heard that thieves lately have turned tech-savvy. But a latest case from Hathras in Uttar Pradesh has shocked the individuals. In this case, a techy turned out to be the primary accused. The Hathras police arrested a gang of motorbike thieves who have been accountable for dozens of thefts. After every week-lengthy operation, the police have arrested eight inter-district thieves and recovered a complete of 37 stolen bikes from their possession.Â
The modus operandi of the thieves was fairly totally different as they not solely used to vary the quantity plates but in addition the chassis numbers, thus making the identification of the stolen car robust. They then used to promote the car at value. (*37*) is surprising is that one of many accused, who has been arrested, is an engineer.Â
Those arrested have already a number of instances registered towards their names. The thieves, together with an engineer, have been caught by the Sadar Kotwali police station and the Special Operations Group (SOG) staff. One of the arrested, Aniket or Ankush is B. Tech in mechanical engineering graduate. Ankush used to flee to Mumbai after every theft. He is concerned within the transport enterprise and has 36 prison instances towards him. He has been to jail a number of instances earlier as nicely.
“Sadabad police station arrested three inter-district notorious vehicle thieves along with 15 stolen motorcycles. The arresting police team was given a cash reward of Rs 25,000 by the Superintendent of Police, Hathras,” mentioned the police division.
Superintendent of Police, Nipun Agarwal, led the operations towards the motorbike theft gang. On May 20, the Sarsni police station and SOG staff apprehended three crafty inter-district car thieves and recovered a number of stolen bikes from their possession.Â
The police launched a second operation on May 25 in collaboration with the Sadar Kotwali police station and the SOG staff. This led to the arrest of two extra inter-district car thieves and one other 15 stolen bikes have been recovered from them. The police staff additionally seized one kilogram of narcotics from them. The third operation within the sequence passed off on May 26 when the Sadabad police station arrested three extra inter-district car thieves and recovered 15 stolen bikes.