Mumbai/Surat: Andheri police on Friday arrested a college dropout from Surat who specialised in stealing Royal Enfield Bullet bikes.
In the last six months Kuldeep Joshi (23) has stolen at least seven bullets from Mumbai and Navi Mumbai and sold them at a cost ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 70,000 in the interiors of Kutch.
Joshi was caught after the police scanned CCTV images and call data records before he was traced to Surat after switching on his cellphone on Thursday. Two stolen bullet bikes have been recovered from him and two of his accomplices are wanted.
On January 14, he had allegedly stolen a bullet bike belonging to a lawyer, Santosh Upadhyay (45), who practises at Andheri metropolitan magistrate court. “Joshi went to DN Nagar in Andheri and then to Oshiwara where his image was captured on CCTVs. He got a keymaker to make a new key to start the bullet and open the fuel cap and rode 800km to Kutch,” said an officer. Based on a complaint lodged by the lawyer, DCP Ankit Goyal and his team traced Joshi to Surat. They scanned at least 100 CCTV images from where the bike was parked up to Oshiwara where he met the keymaker.
"We checked mobile network towers and zeroed in on two numbers between which calls were exchanged constantly," said an officer. Joshi’s phone was activated only last week when the cops traced him. Joshi used the sale proceeds of the bikes to splurge on parties, said the police.
In the last six months Kuldeep Joshi (23) has stolen at least seven bullets from Mumbai and Navi Mumbai and sold them at a cost ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 70,000 in the interiors of Kutch.
Joshi was caught after the police scanned CCTV images and call data records before he was traced to Surat after switching on his cellphone on Thursday. Two stolen bullet bikes have been recovered from him and two of his accomplices are wanted.
On January 14, he had allegedly stolen a bullet bike belonging to a lawyer, Santosh Upadhyay (45), who practises at Andheri metropolitan magistrate court. “Joshi went to DN Nagar in Andheri and then to Oshiwara where his image was captured on CCTVs. He got a keymaker to make a new key to start the bullet and open the fuel cap and rode 800km to Kutch,” said an officer. Based on a complaint lodged by the lawyer, DCP Ankit Goyal and his team traced Joshi to Surat. They scanned at least 100 CCTV images from where the bike was parked up to Oshiwara where he met the keymaker.
"We checked mobile network towers and zeroed in on two numbers between which calls were exchanged constantly," said an officer. Joshi’s phone was activated only last week when the cops traced him. Joshi used the sale proceeds of the bikes to splurge on parties, said the police.
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