KOTA: The police here on Saturday busted a gang of bike lifters and recovered 33 vehicles. Three persons have been arrested.
Kota city S P Gourav Yadav, speaking to mediapersons, said acting on a tip off, a special team led by SHO of Udhyog Nagar police station, RPS on probation Mrityunjay Mishra, carried out checking of vehicles at DCM Circle on Thursday. Noticing the police team, three youths on a motorbike without number plate instantly took U-turn, however, the police chased them and nabbed at a distance, he added.
Yadav said, on interrogation, the three youths, identified as Kushal Kumar (34) of Kota city, Jitendra (21) of Ballop village in Talera police station of Bundi district and Ganesh Kumar Meghwal (31) of Railgaun village under Simliya police station of Kota Rural could not produce papers of the motorbike they were riding, he said.
Yadav said the motorbike was found to be stolen following which the three youths were brought to police station and were booked under relevant sections for motorbike lifting. During interrogation, the accused revealed to have lifted several bikes from various places in Kota city and on the hint of location by them, the police recovered 33 motorbikes which they had hidden in forest behind the Prem Nagar Affordable Housing area under Udhyog Nagar police station, he said.
The accused would sell the lifted motorbikes in Madhya Pradesh at the price from 20,000 to 40,000, he further said adding one of the accused Jitendra was a mechanic who would change the number plate.