JAIPUR: The Chirawa police in Jhunjhunu district have arrested two vehicle lifters and seized a stolen SUV from their possession. Police nabbed the vehicle lifters while they were into finding and penalizing public not wearing masks late on Saturday evening.
According to police, a team of senior officers was at Singhana road in Chirawa and were checking people wearing mask or not while driving and walking on the road.
“Suddenly we saw an SUV coming towards us. We saw none of the passengers in the vehicle including driver and person sitting next to him were not wearing masks. While our men asked them to stop, they accelerated the vehicle and did not stop,” said a senior police officer of Chirawa police on Sunday.
As these people accelerated the vehicle, a team of police in their vehicle chased them. Finally, after a chase of almost 10km both of them were nabbed.
“The arrested accused identified as Rahul (18) and Aakash (19) were penalized for not wearing the mask. However, while we asked them to show the papers of the vehicle they did not had valid registration papers for the vehicle. Later it was discovered that the vehicle was stolen, earlier by the two accused,” the officer added.
Police have arrested both of the accused for stealing the vehicle and a case under appropriate sections of IPC has been lodged against them.
“Both are under interrogation to find out their role in other vehicle lifting cases,” the officer added.